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With ever increasing costs and workloads MAP is now helping the Steering Group investigate methods offunding key BATOD posts and raising sponsorship to support major BATOD events. A meeting with TrevorHarrison, recently retired from ICI, proved very valuable to these ongoing discussions.The Professional Development Committee has had a busy year too.BATOD CPD Logs: all members will have received one of the new BATOD CPD Logs which were sent outat the beginning of the academic year 2001-2002. They have been well received and give a veryprofessional look to CPD record-keeping. This CPD log also helps in providing evidence for ThresholdAssessment and Performance Management (England and Wales) and for the McCrone CPD hours inScotland.At the end of this academic year approximately 5% of the logs will be selected to be returned to PD. Wewill use this exercise to consider the range of courses covered and to get general feedback on the layout ofthe log and information provided. The feedback will be used to inform BATOD about current training issuesand will be helpful in the planning of future conferences and courses.The Professional Development Committee will collate and assess the feedback and submit anyrecommendations to the NEC, TTA and the DfES.The National Conference and AGM remains an important part of the PD committee year. The 2001conference was particularly special as we celebrated 25 years of BATOD. The event took place in Cardiffand drew members past and present from across Britain. It certainly was a conference to remember andWelsh members were pleased to participate in the organisation and supported the day.The Conference 2002 - Assessing Progress will be in London at the School of African and OrientalStudies on Saturday 16th March. The Association AGM and Presidential handover take place during thisconference.We have no sooner finalised the 2002 conference details than we are seeking venues and speakers for2003. This one will be in Edinburgh on Saturday 15 March 2003 and the committee hopes it will be aconference and weekend to remember.The PD committee always welcomes comments on topics and speakers for conferences and willendeavour to take these suggestions and incorporate them into future conferences.Lucy Leith has undertaken the task of updating the Conference Planner which ensures that the planningtakes place in a timely and efficient way. She has amended the time-lines - necessitated by the AGM’smove from November to March.By the time the 2002 conference takes place (16th March 2002) all the standard letters and information willbe on disk which should ease the delegation of conference organising from year to year.As with all National Conferences the PD committee is very grateful for all the offers of help in putting thisevent together. The continuing success of this event lies with a valiant band of BATOD members whoshoulder the delegated tasks.Until now the committee has taken care of the administration of Select’s training for mainstream supplyteachers. This is a supply teacher agency which trains its register of supply teachers in the implications ofa range of SEN. BATOD is contracted to deliver that training where deaf children are concerned. This isnow in being administered by Paul Simpson. Select contact Paul and he supplies a name and contactdetails of a qualified Teacher of the Deaf. This named person will use the BATOD materials (adapted tosuit local situations) and this person is paid by Select. BATOD receives a fee for this service.At Cardiff in March 2001 Carole Sturt took over as chair of PD. However, as of March 2002 she willbecome the President-Elect. Although Carole will remain a member of the committee, Lucy Leith will betaking over as Chair bringing the wealth of her experience to the post.PD is ‘losing’ David Bond in March. David has been a great asset to this committee over a number ofyears. As far as the committee is concerned he will have lasting fame through his amazing ability to stepin and deliver a workshop at the 1999 Conference with only a 10-minute warning (the organised speakerfailed to turn up!). It is a great tribute to his vast knowledge and competent delivery that the evaluationsheets glowed - the only negative comment was from someone unhappy about the lack of handouts!!email: secretary@BATOD.org.uk BATOD Annual report 2001 BATODWebsite: www.BATOD.org.uk 21 The Haystacks, High WycombeAnswerphone / fax 01494 464190 page 9 Bucks HP13 6PY
David is not only retiring from BATOD PD committee but also from his day job as Director of the RoyalSchool for the Deaf Children, Margate. We all wish him well and hope he has a long and happy retirement.As we approach March 2002 we look forward to welcoming two new elected members on PD, BeverleyMagee from the North Region and Pauline Cobbold from the Midland Region.Business has proceeded much as usual for the Journal ‘Deafness and Education International’ (DEI)this year. The addition of Associate Editor Dr. Steve Powers (SP) to the ‘management’ team has been mostbeneficial. Having both Clare Gallaway and Steve now able to carry out the editing procedure is asignificant improvement, as is having three Editors (as well the Whurr Publishers’ team) to suggest newmoves, discuss publicity, new procedures, etc. In June, Clare, Steve and Meg Shepherd went to London forthe annual meeting with Colin Whurr and Wendy Mould (in charge of Journal production) and inSeptember, a part of the BATOD Steering Group meeting in Birmingham was devoted to discussing DEIwith Editor and Publisher Colin Whurr.The general message was that DEI continues to run smoothly. Four issues a year would enable a focusedor themed edition each year but this is not financially viable at the present time. More participation issought from BATOD members, such as: general views from the profession about DEI, reviewers for newbooks received, colleagues coming forward who would like to referee papers, publicity (for exampleencouraging non-BATOD members and/or institutions such as schools and libraries to take outsubscriptions) and submissions. As well as typical research or educational practice papers, the followingmay be considered: descriptions of ‘Work in Progress’, shorter discussion papers or notes and reports ofresearch conferences. Any of the Editors may be contacted with suggestions.This has been another encouraging year for the Midland Region. A pleasing number ofrepresentatives from across the region has regularly attended committee meetings. There hasalso been good attendance at the twilight meeting and AGM and conference.The twilight meeting saw a record turnout, as 50-60 teachers, representing almost all the LEAs in theregion, travelled to Nottingham for the meeting which addressed a number of issues relating to support atpre-school. Beverly Burch, a teacher from Leicester City, introduced her LEA’s parents’ information pack.Suzanne Harrigan, Speech and Language Therapist (S&LT) from Nottingham talked about earlycommunication strategies with young children. Finally, Malcolm Garner considered ‘Lessons fromAmerica’, discussing issues that had arisen during his trip to Colorado, where he had visited the neonatalscreening programme.Evaluations from this meeting confirmed that support at pre-school and the implementation of UNHS arevery important topics for teachers at present. Suggestions for future events highlighted other areas ofconcern, particularly relating to developments in audiology, in which teachers working with children acrossall phases of education have identified training needs.The Midland region AGM and Conference took place in Worcester in October. In response to the feedbackfrom the May meeting, the audiological theme for the day attracted an audience of over 60 teachers andteaching assistants, representing LEAs from across the Midlands and from Wales.The first speaker, Richard Vaughan-Jones, ENT consultant from Worcester, provided a highly informativeoverview of the pathology of the ear, causes of childhood deafness and current trends in treatment andmanagement of hearing loss.For the second presentation, Carina Newman, an Educational Audiologist and Teacher of the Deaf fromShropshire, brought the delegates up to date with digital hearing aids and the Modernisation of Hearing AidServices Project.The afternoon was dedicated to the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme. Martin Smith, Head ofService in Dorset, provided the background to the project and raised a number of implications thateducation services may face. Debra York and others who have been involved in the pilot sites thencontributed to a discussion of the issues that will all have to be addressed as neonatal screening isimplemented.The very positive evaluations of the conference were a clear indication of how the delegates enjoyed theday and how helpful and relevant they had found the content of the presentations. At the AGM PaulineCobbold took over as Chair of the region. Alison Weaver, the outgoing Chair, took this opportunity to thankthe committee members for their support and commitment during her time of office. Pauline Wells, fromLeicestershire, agreed to join the committee.email: secretary@BATOD.org.uk BATOD Annual report 2001 BATODWebsite: www.BATOD.org.uk 21 The Haystacks, High WycombeAnswerphone / fax 01494 464190 page 10 Bucks HP13 6PY
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