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Hello Pam Hazel’s given you an excellent answer. From an assessor’s viewpoint using the audit sheet headings makes it easier to map the value of what you’ll be writing to the assessment criteria. Could I add a few more comments? Resist the temptation to spend a lot of time on stage 1, ie the description, if your approach is literally to describe the visit itself. Say why you made the visit briefly, explain what happened including a pulling together of any conversations you had. Conversation reports can sometime reveal your open-mindedness and professional inquisitiveness. In one of my learning logs, I noted a conversation I had with a conference speaker. She used only a small number of powerpoint slides and all had a creamy background. She explained why she did this; I looked into it in more detail, worked out whether it would make a difference to my practise objectives and still implement it today. And this fits into CILIP’s Body of Knowledge. An unplanned outcome of my going to the conference that has influenced how I do things. Please resist the temptation at this stage to jump to conclusions. Assessors will like to get the impression at this stage that the writer is handling the uncertainty that comes from not having the answers as this should lead in the next 2 stages to realisation and discovery. Whatever you include now should only be there because it is part of stages 2 and 3. Stage 2 is the ‘so what’ part. It’s here that your professional skill should show through. This can include conclusions, theories you’ve developed or changed, and lessons learned. Whatever you do now should be with the aim of pulling together your evidence. The extent to which you use the first person might be a good guide to how effective your pulling together of your stage 1 material really is. Stage 3 is all about the difference made. You’re taking your conclusions, theories and lessons learned and working out a personal plan. This might be entirely about you as a professional, or about making a change in your organisation or wider afield. Link it back to strategic objectives that you should have identified elsewhere in your portfolio (these can be personal strategies as well as organisational or community ones). Where’s the linkage? Your plan shows what effect your conclusions in 2 have had / will have on your practice. If you can show an immediate impact then that gives more substance to your plan. Don’t be afraid of saying that things didn’t go fully to plan - that shows you’re reflecting, learning and implementing. Avoid including paperwork about the practicalities of setting up the visit, saying your “thank you’s” and so on, and as usual pay particular attention to copyright issues, permission from others and anonymisation of evidence. Bear in mind that visits can bring several benefits in satisfying our assessment criteria. These include providing another place to show your critical reflective and professional evaluation skills, particularly if you have found that your Evaluative Statement has been a squeeze. They can also trigger and provide evidence when tackling your coverage of wider professional issues. And (not often included) they can show how you’ve given back as well as taking from. Best wishes. Keith Wilson Chair, Chartership Board. From: list for CILIP members working towards MCLIP status [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hazel Wright Sent: 18 June 2010 12:15 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Visits to other organisations Hi Pam, I used CILIP's Revalidation CPD Audit Sheet: http://www.cilip.org.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/worddocs/qualificationschartership/RevalidationCPDAuditSheet.doc Hope this is of help, Hazel Wright NSPCC Safeguarding Information and Library Services <http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform> Weston House, 42 Curtain Rd London, EC2A 3NH P Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? ChildLine 0800 1111 - for children and young people to share your worries with a trained counsellor. NSPCC Helpline 0808 800 5000 - for anyone with a concern about a child or young person. -----Original Message----- From: list for CILIP members working towards MCLIP status [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pamela Geldenhuys Sent: 18 June 2010 11:33 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Visits to other organisations Importance: High Dear All I am a new CDG member working on my Chartership application and wondered whether there is a template available to use when reporting on a visit made to another organisation ? 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