ISL 11: Teacher Professional Development and Life Long Learning

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

1. Personal Learning Plan

http://edglossary.org/personal-learning-plan/
a. developed by students (learning teachers) in collaboration with lecturers
as a way to help them achieve short- and long-term learning goals
b. based on the belief that they will be more motivated to learn, will feel a
stronger sense of ownership over their education if they decide what they
want to learn, how they are going to learn it, and why they need learn it to
achieve their personal goals.
c. Contents
i. Think about and describe their personal life aspirations,
particularly their collegiate and career goals.
ii. Self-assess their individual learning strengths and weaknesses, or
reflect on what they have academically achieved, excelled at, or
struggled with in the past.
iii. Identify specific learning gaps or skill deficiencies that should be
addressed in their education, or specific knowledge, skills, and
character traits they would like to acquire.
iv. List or describe their personal interests, passions, pursuits, and
hobbies, and identify ways to integrate those interests into their
education.
v. Chart a personal educational program that will allow them to
achieve their educational and aspirational goals while also fulfilling
learning requirements, such as particular learning standards or
credit and course requirements for graduation.
vi. Document major learning accomplishments or milestones.

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

Creating a reading culture

 Reduce unhealthy activities and replace it with reading
  Know what to read and what not to read
 Balance your reading
 Prepare a list and obtain the reading materials
 Allocate SOME TIME per day to read
 Bring READING MATERIAL along with you
 Find a suitable place to read
 Visit book fair and book store to instill the interest of reading

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

c. Factors promoting Meetings/ discussion

i. Having the same goals
ii. Ablility to give feedback
iii. Open dialogue opportunities

d. Challenges to Meetings/ discussion

i. Difficult to set up time for discussion
 ii. Being Egoistic
iii. Being selfish
iv. Reluctant to accept others’ opinons
v. Teachers are not able to mingle
vi. Conflicts

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

8. Teaching for Authentic Learning

a. Teach based on the activities in real situation which encourage pupils to
focus on the knowledge and skills such as thinking skills and problem
solving skills
b. Take appropriate steps to understand the task and to use various
authentic resources
c. Collaboration
d. Student-centred teaching