Gain a Complete Picture of Workforce Development with Professional Development Journals

Track External Professional Development with Ease
Whether you’ve attended a workshop, completed a certification, or taken part in a webinar, the Professional Development Journal makes it simple to log your learning. Activities are categorized for clarity, and each entry can include a duration — making it easier than ever to keep tabs on your total professional development hours.

Reflect and Grow
Each journal entry also provides space to set objectives and capture personal reflections, supporting a more meaningful, reflective professional development process. You can look back on what you learned, why it mattered, and how it’s shaping your practice going forward.

Built-In Insights for Leaders
For admin users, the Professional Development Journal opens up new possibilities. You can now view colleagues’ journal entries and see how external development fits into broader organizational goals. Usage reports now include professional development logging statistics, giving you a fuller picture of faculty development engagement across your team.

Built for the Bigger Picture
With recent Ofsted proposals including a greater focus on inspecting and grading the development of teaching and training, this new feature arrives at a perfect time. By enabling staff to log professional development activity from beyond the platform, the HOW2 app now supports a 360-degree view of professional learning and development.

Commenting on the new Professional Development Journal feature, soon to be rolled out as part of the Royal Navy’s existing use of the HOW2 Platform, Simon Scott-Munden, Education and Training Organization (ETO) Manager for Team Fisher at HMS Collingwood, said:​“The HOW2 Professional Development log empowers our educators to unite their professional growth in one streamlined system, offering consistency, clarity, and collaboration, through a shared format and language.”

HOW2 has been working in partnership with Team Fisher, the Capita-led consortium responsible for transforming trainer delivery across 14 of the Royal Navy’s training establishments. As a trusted Professional Development partner, HOW2 has helped drive a shift toward a more developmental, adaptive, student-centric professional development model, supported by a shared professional language that underpins consistent practice across the Navy training sites.

The Professional Development log was developed in response to a need identified across the Team Fisher training cadre to record all workforce development activity in one place. By centralising professional development tracking within the HOW2 Platform, ETO Managers are now better able to monitor, evaluate, and support professional learning at scale. 

Getting Started
CPD Journals are available to all existing TeachingHOW2s subscribers from today, at no additional cost. If you have a HOW2 account you can log in, browse to your profile and select the CPD Journal tab to start logging activities.

If you aren’t yet a HOW2 subscriber, get in touch for a demo or to discuss further details.

We hope you’ll find this new feature both practical and powerful. As always, if you have any thoughts or suggestions, we welcome your feedback.

TeachingHOW2s is driving innovation in professional learning for educators across U.S. community colleges — particularly within Workforce and Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs — as well as universities and industry training organizations.

Its digital platform provides a practical, evidence-based approach to strengthening teaching practice, supported by an integrated AI Assistant that offers real-time, tailored guidance to help educators adapt strategies for their classrooms, labs, and workspaces.

Designed for Workforce and CTE faculty, the HOW2 Platform delivers on-demand teaching expertise that enhances instructional quality and supports job-ready outcomes. By offering an in-house, scalable approach to developing educators across both credit and noncredit programs — including institutions with large adjunct workforces — HOW2 enables colleges and districts to sustain teaching excellence efficiently.

Collaborative tools within the platform also promote professional dialogue and peer-to-peer learning, helping educators share best practices and build collective expertise aligned with CTE program improvement cycles.

HOW2 makes professional learning an everyday, scalable, and sustainable practice — empowering faculty to create engaging, competency-based learning environments where both learners and educators thrive.

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