How to prepare for professional review
Attend free half day AMA workshop, which will explain the AMA Criteria and how to prepare for the review. This will give you a chance to work with others preparing for review, practise answering questions and discuss any queries.
Reflect on your work based project and prepare a 5 minute presentation demostrating how your work based project has helped you to:
· Effect a positive change in the way you work
· Effectively manage yourself, time and resources
Familiarise yourself with your plans and summaries. You will have done a lot of CPD over the last two years or more. Take some time to reflect on how you have developed professional relationships as part of your AMA and how you have met each criteria of the AMA.
Make sure you are also familiar with the Code of Ethics and are up to date with current issues facing museums and galleries and are able to discuss these. Think about how these issues affect you, your organisation and the whole profession. Reading Museums Journal and Museum Practice is good preparation for this part of the review.
Discuss ethics or topical issues with your mentor or colleagues. Ask someone to carry out a mock professional review with you.
Think about the kind of questions you might be asked and jot down some ideas about what you want to talk about. You can take a few notes into the review to help you jog your memory, but please don't take too many - the professional review should be a discussion with the reviewers, not a presentation by you.
If you are planning to come to professional review in 2011 then please contact the MA: cpd@museumsassociation.org
Reflect on your work based project and prepare a 5 minute presentation demostrating how your work based project has helped you to:
· Effect a positive change in the way you work
· Effectively manage yourself, time and resources
Familiarise yourself with your plans and summaries. You will have done a lot of CPD over the last two years or more. Take some time to reflect on how you have developed professional relationships as part of your AMA and how you have met each criteria of the AMA.
Make sure you are also familiar with the Code of Ethics and are up to date with current issues facing museums and galleries and are able to discuss these. Think about how these issues affect you, your organisation and the whole profession. Reading Museums Journal and Museum Practice is good preparation for this part of the review.
Discuss ethics or topical issues with your mentor or colleagues. Ask someone to carry out a mock professional review with you.
Think about the kind of questions you might be asked and jot down some ideas about what you want to talk about. You can take a few notes into the review to help you jog your memory, but please don't take too many - the professional review should be a discussion with the reviewers, not a presentation by you.
If you are planning to come to professional review in 2011 then please contact the MA: cpd@museumsassociation.org
