Promoting Professional Teacher Development More Effectively

YOU areHERE

Sugar School Community of happy learning teachers

Professional Development DOES NOT always mean attending workshops, seminars, trainings done by others;

They are their own resources for their own development

Think Globally Act Locally

Start the Professional TeacherDevelopment from something small

Think-Pair-Share

• Think of one small thing that you always do/will do as an effort for professional development?

Professional Development

is NOT about being Senior and Junior

Professional Development

is a continuous and individual process of trying to understand ourselves and our practice.

It is either formal, informal, monitored or not, evaluated or not, observed or not. It is an effort to always become a better teacher, lecturer, trainer.

It involves rethinking and questioning old assumptions, learning and unlearning. It may involve change in attitudes, beliefs and practice.

Teacher Professional Development Programme MUST

• Support – site based (school, district, provincial)

• Model the constructive teaching• Offer intellectual, social, and emotional

engagement with ideas, materials and colleagues

• Show respect for teachers as professionals and as adult learners

(adapted from Corcoran 1995)

Towards critical self - awareness

Look your own practice and be critical. • Always improve the quality

of knowledge, skills and attitude

• Try to do action research (informal is better)

• Have a round table discussion regularly at school levels.

Look at your own practice and be critical.

• Write a Teaching Journal. A teaching journal is ongoing written account of observations, reflections, and other thoughts about teaching (Farrel, 2005)

• Do Peer Observations to understand more about teaching, learning, and classroom interactions

Always Reflect on Your Practice It will keep you

Young

and

Updated

Teacher is the symbol of LIFE LONG LEARNER

REMEMBER!