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Professional Development: 1. Diah Erawati 2. Dzaalika Aldeirre 3. Nesya Shabrina

Professional development is the process of improving skills and knowledge for career growth. It includes formal education, conferences, and on-the-job learning. Successful programs involve participants in planning, are based on school-wide goals, provide long-term support, and incorporate research. Professional development is key to school improvement and has become a national priority for advancing the teaching profession.

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Professional Development: 1. Diah Erawati 2. Dzaalika Aldeirre 3. Nesya Shabrina

Professional development is the process of improving skills and knowledge for career growth. It includes formal education, conferences, and on-the-job learning. Successful programs involve participants in planning, are based on school-wide goals, provide long-term support, and incorporate research. Professional development is key to school improvement and has become a national priority for advancing the teaching profession.

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PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT
1. Diah Erawati
2. Dzaalika Aldeirre
3. Nesya Shabrina
Professional Development:
Professional Development is learning to
earn or maintain professional credentials
such us academic degrees to formal
course work, conferences and informal
learning opportunities situated in practice.
It has been described as intensive and
collaborative, ideally incorporating an
evaluative stage.
Professional Development:
Characteristics of Successful PD Programs:
1) Involvement of participants in planning,
implementation and evaluation of PD.
2) Programs based on school-wide goals, but that
integrate individual and group goals.
3) Long-range planning and development.
4) Programs that incorporate research, best
practice, and instructional improvement.
5) Administrative support including time, resources,
and involvement in planning and delivery.
Professional Development:
6) Adherence to principles of adult
learning.
7) Attention to the research on change.
8) Follow-up and support for transfer of
learning to school or classroom.
9) Ongoing assessment and feedback.
10) Continuous professional development
that becomes part of the school culture.
Professional Development:
Alternative Formats:
Beginning teacher assistance programs.
Skill development programs.
Teacher Centers: teachers meet in central location to
engage in professional dialogue, develop skills, plan
innovations, or create instructional materials.
Teacher Institutes: intensive learning experiences on
single topics over a period of consecutive days or weeks
Collegial Support Groups: teachers with in same school
engage in group inquiry, jointly implement instructional
innovation, and provide mutual support.
Professional Development:
Networks: Teachers from different schools share
information, computer links, seminars, conferences.
Teacher Leadership: Teachers participate in leadership
preparation programs and assist other teachers by
assuming instructional leadership roles.
Teacher as Writer: Reflection. Preparation of formal
articles, journals, essays, blogs, etc.
Individual PD: Teachers set individual goals and
objectives, plan and carry out activities, assess results
Partnerships: School/University, School/Business, etc.
Stages of Professional
Development:
Orientation Stage: Benefits,
responsibilities and personal concerns about
involvement in staff development are
addressed.
Integration Stage: Teachers are assisted
as they apply previous learning in their
classrooms and schools.
Refinement Stage: Teachers move from
basic competence to expertise through
continuous experimentation and reflection.
Extending the Concept of
Professional Development:
Personal Development: understanding of ones
own life-cycle, transition events, roles, improving
teachers self-concept and self-efficacy.
Career Development: supports teachers as they
move through phases of the teaching career from
induction to retirement. Provide new challenges
and opportunities, leadership roles, rewards, etc.
Moral Development: enhance teachers abilities
to develop moral insight and decision-making.
School improvement is largely dependent
on professional development
Improvement of the teaching profession
has become a national goal in recent
years, and professional development is
the engie driving this movement
Professional Development
Program
School Improvement:
Dependent on professional development.
School-wide goal-setting, improvement plans,
curriculum initiatives.
Data-driven.
Support for change implementation.
Selectivity of projects.
Time for implementation: 3 5 years
Administrative support. Resources.

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