Professional development

Nowadays, it has been known that teachers need to foster themselves and

to improve their teaching competence according to the students’ need. On one

hand, as Brown stated, teachers need to be concern for continuing their

professional development, one way on doing this is by applying new techniques in

their teaching practice. On the other hand, it is predictable that we as

undergraduate students our main goal is to finish our degree; after that start

working and save money; however, from my perspective experience is one of key

item that the society ask for in order to have the chance to have a job. Moreover,

since I started this major, I have realized the area that I like the most, and also I

have wondered what I would like to seek. Following with the previous idea, another

alternative is the one proposed by Taylor, this process is called research, this

means that in order to obtain information about the current situation, it will be more

valuable when the researcher is the teacher, taking into account that he is the one

with experience and who deals with it in all times.

The assignment also provided a definition for “professional” suggested by

Pettis, basically she emphasized that a professional needs to include the

necessary principles, knowledge and skills, a professional is committed to his job

as well with his students, in order to get the best of his work place. As a future

teacher, this task helps me to understand what a professional really means, and to

notice that there are other resources available outside a classroom or within, where

I can do an improvement, teachers need to keep up learning since knowledge

changes as time goes by. The job of a teacher goes further the classroom; we

need just to look the right place at the right time.

Makarena Sánchez