All entries for Saturday 05 May 2007

Portfolio planning

Well, I've spent most of my Saturday planning my portfolio structure. I decided it would be easier to work around a self-imposed structure right from the start, instead of trying to squash them into criteria categories later.

I am following the Body of Professional Knowledge document written by Hertfordshire County Council Libraries. And also, obviously, the CILIP assessment criteria. 

So my evidence will be divided into the following sections:

1. Knowledge Management

2. Applications Environment

3. Transferable Skills

4. Additional Considerations
(there are bound to be some - the document was originally aimed at ACLIP candidates) 

And each of these sections will contain evidence to show:

1.  Ability to reflect critically on personal performance and evaluate service performance

2. Active commitment to continuing professional development

3. Ability to analyse personal and professional development and progression with reference to experiential and development activities

4. Breadth of professional knowledge and understanding of the wider context 

This will (hopefully) help me to decide which evidence should be submitted, based on how many actual criteria each piece fulfils.  And that (hopefully) will keep portfolio size down to a minimum.

It should also concentrate my planning of what to do to meet the criteria.

Does this seem like a good idea or am I being too anal about it all?? 

(And no, it didnt take me all day just to come up with this! - but I cant type everything I did today here, or my hands would drop off and your eyes would bleed!) 

Katharine Widdows : 05 May 2007 18:41 |  Tags: Chartership Cilip Portfolio Qualifications |  Comments (3) |  Close comments |  Report a problem