Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The Importance Of Professional Development For Teachers

By Jessica Wood


Continuous mentoring and training of the educators is the only way the goal of having professional teachers can be achieved. All of them should be involved in the process without looking at their experience level. Learning is always open to everyone regardless of age. The process has no limit. To achieve professional development for teachers, they should be dealt with at different levels and helped to improve gradually.

The professionalism can be achieved through continuous seminars, training programs, and workshops. Such activities need to be regular and have consistency for them to have some impact to the tutors after the training. As time goes by, skills and more techniques advance too. Therefore it is important to keep the educators posted, and in case of any recent important information they should be coordinated and be updated with the information.

Through the workshop and training, it is important to consider the social and emotional abilities of all tutors. These are very important aspects of any human being. For successful teaching, the educators should be able to relate well to the students for them to pay attention or even learn anything in the class. The training should, therefore, focus on this area and ensure those who are weak are helped on how to improve their relations and emotions especially when dealing with students.

While at the workshops, they are required to get a proper understanding of some of the programs, for instance, the famous continuous understanding program. They are reminded of its structure, significance and how it can be applied. They, therefore, try to apply its acquired skills in the classroom and see the effect it has on the students, in relation to the curriculum. It requires them to maintain a conducive and accommodating environment to serve the students.

Each person has their scholastic and non-scholastic life skills. The seminars should categorically highlight to the tutors the relevance of the skills and how they can be narrowed down in the classroom to impact on the learners positively. As professionals, educators are expected to use the skills to the advantage of the students and see to it that it impacts positively towards the curriculum.

The workshops should also enhance the communication skills of the tutors. Good communication skills guarantee a good relationship between learners and their trainers. The students are also likely to gain more confidence as they try to emulate their instructors. Therefore the workshops should put emphasis on the development of better communication skills. Other than listening and speaking, there are also important non-verbal skills such as facial expressions, body language, and gestures.

Technology puts some practices behind time as new ones take over. Some teaching ways no longer work in the current times and the teachers should be enlightened and trained on how to embrace the new ones, which the students are likely to embrace. Chalk dust could cause allergies to some people, and the problem has been replaced by having pens that use spirits and ink for writing on white boards. Every teaching and learning aspect has at least one or two things removed or added to it.

It is very important therefore to focus on all the aspects of learning and both the major and minor areas so as to achieve the desired professionalism. The professional officials in charge should be very informed and updated so that they share with their trainees the appropriate information.




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