Professional Development
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Professional Development
It is a continuous skill enhancement through learning process aimed at imparting or acquiring skills so as to influence the leaners’ learning. It is a process encompassing positive as well as negative benefits. In the article, the author asserts that professional learning comes with advantages as enumerated below.
Meaningful, intellectual, emotional as well as social interaction with colleagues get entrenched through proper sharing of ideas and views as one get accustomed to the learning process both within and outside of instruction.
The process gets to recognize the process, experiences and skills of teachers. It permit teachers to fill that they are adventuring in a worthy course in uplifting the life of humanity through knowledge transfer.
The classroom practice takes into account learners’ educational careers as they emphasizes on education practice that is unique in a wide perspective.
It facilitates a balance between the institution’s interests with that of the individual thus ensuring bureaucratic governance. With leaner and orderly processes, one is able to strike a balance and uplift both personal interests as well as those of the institution.
A culture of critique gets entrenched in all parties involved in the education system. It permit individual to discern what is correct in the learning process and do away with what is bad in the endeavor of striving for excellence in learning.
The professional practices’ standards enable teachers as well as learners come up with proper teaching as well as learning principles that cut across all the people involved. The standard can get replicate globally for the benefit of the coming generation. It facilitate change acceptance and hence get the learning process by in synchronism with the dynamism of education.
Besides, professional practice comes with disadvantages. In the first place, the dynamic change that constantly revolve possess a challenge to the teachers as well as learners. Even though change is rapid and one must accept change, the nature of the human being is always resistance to dynamic change.
Professional development calls for resource utilization. It is real meaning, funds need investing so as to get a reward. It is a challenge to the teacher as well as the institution requiring professional development. In an individual point of view, if professional development is going to get realized, then sacrifice is mandatory.
It calls for planning properly. Planning being a function in management presents a number of challengers to the educationist. It requires strict adherences to planning procedures so as to get needed goals as well as objectives. In the article, the author enumerates the planning procedures for successful implementation. However, adherence is minimal.
Time needed for further education is not as easy as said. Teachers find time for their professional development that is always in conflict with the teaching program in an institution especially when there is short of personnel in an institution. Job embedded learning has come to ameliorates to predicament.
In conclusion, irrespective of the challenges experienced in the professional development, it is worthy for any teacher to be in the system of developing professionally. It ensures that the teacher get skills and is going to be at an advantage in imparting them to learners.
