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Professional development
Encompasses all types of facilitated learning opportunities including credentials such as
academic degrees to formal coursework, conferences and informal learning
opportunities situated in practice
Life Long Learning
A process of acquiring and updating all kinds of knowledge, skills, abilities and interests,
that continues throughout a person's life
2. Reading culture
a. People start to learn, think, plan and do some survey through reading
b. Reading is a way to gain new knowledge
c. As a road to success
d. To produce a creative and innovative teacher
e. Improving teaching skills
f. Use authentic reading materials
3. Research Culture
a. Solve problems
i. Find causes of problems
ii. Suggestion for improvement
iii. Generate critical
b. Seek new ways
i. Generate innovative and creative thinking.
ii. Explore new things
c. Preventing assumption
4. Reflective Culture
a. Use metacognitive strategies
b. Reflect the experiences
c. Realize the implications
d. Critical about their own practice.
e. Evaluate the teaching and learning process
f. Help teachers to make decision about the teaching theory
g. Help teachers to make decision about whether to proceed or to modify or
abandon teaching strategies and resources.
5. Meetings/ Discussion
a. Meeting
i. To come to a consensus
ii. To make decisions based on agreement
iii. Action taken should be planned
b. Discussion
i. To share ideas
ii. To express opinions and feelings
iii. To avoid conflicts
iv. Preventing isolation and individualism
6. Collaboration / Cooperation
a. Collaboration
i. Working with others in a project and have a DIFFERENT goals
ii. To achieve positive development (win-win)
iii. Sharing ideas, resources, strategies, methods
iv. Examples: working with other schools, foreign teachers, other
teachers on a project for different purposes
v. Factors affecting:
1. Being Trustworthy
2. Volunteering
b. Cooperation
i. Working with others in a project and have a SAME goals
ii. To achieve positive development (win-win)
iii. Sharing ideas, resources, strategies, methods
iv. Examples: Curriculum review, Team teaching, test moderation
v. Based on
1. Positive interdependence
2. Accountability
3. Equal opportunities
4. Simultaneous interaction
7. In-Service-Training
a. Part of Professional Development
b. Focus on gaining of knowledge and skills related to the profession
c. Falls under the responsibility of the Teacher Education Division (BPG)
d. Objectives:
i. Provide opportunities for teachers to enhance knowledge and
skills
ii. Enhance teacher class management skills
iii. Equip teachers with and to competency
iv. Give exposure to teachers about innovation in the educational
field
v. Provide knowledge and awareness regarding the educational
transformation