A teaching portfolio is an essential item for all educators.

Every student teacher has to create one, and continually update it throughout their career. Whether you just finished college or are a seasoned veteran in the education field, learning how to perfect your teaching portfolio will help you advance in your career.

What is it?
A professional portfolio for educators showcases a collection of the best examples of your work, classroom experiences, skills and achievements. Its a way to introduce yourself to your prospective employers beyond a resume. While a resume provides information about relevant work experience, a portfolio illustrates these examples of your qualifications. It is a valuable tool to bring to interviews and to track your professional growth.

What to Include
Creating your portfolio is an ongoing process. As you gain more experience, you add or take away items in your portfolio. Making a professional portfolio takes time and experience. Finding and identifying the perfect items to showcase your experience, skills and qualities are essential. The most effective portfolios contain the following items:

Title page Table of contents Philosophy Resume Degrees/Certificates/Awards

Professional development is an ongoing activity in enhancing or changing a generation of great satisfaction to work in a carrer. It is also a process to achieve a specialization in carrer and fulfill the aspirations of the organization. This professional development has also provided some advantage to the teacher. This can bee seen where some time ago the goverment has increased the level of teacher education. Where teachers who graduated SPM and STPM have been absorbed into the diploma level. And now the goverment has provided an opportunity for teacher to pursue graduate level where it is bome entirely by the goverment in the form of distance education

Sir, Professional Development means comprehensive knowing all about things or body of information and sustained to face any problem with the good and wise resolve to give constructive ideas.It also intensive approach to improving teachers effectiveness in raising student achievement. Some professional development can do

activities teacher enhance professional career growth. Such activities may include individual development, continuing education, and service education, as well as curriculum writing, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring.

Terms professional development always been used to excange the term professional staff.Professional development teacher must been seen as development process of gradual development which be for justifies the teacher to expand and development the principle of increasing professional knowledge.Goverment has held courses that can followed by each teacher for purpose of development professional. Seminar, lecture course, the net work and.motivation has been disigned to support the professional development of teacher.

Professional development- Seminar Posted By : ZAITUN HJ. LINGKAS (D20112054553) Date posted : 12 Mar 2012 11:59:36 PM (3 read/s) Professional development is an important feature or aspect dedicated to increasing knowledge and skills in various fields. Inside the professional development area, there is a unit that can plan or implement something on education such as seminars. Seminar is, generally, a form of academic instruction to make disclosures to the students. The seminar is a provider of information. Besides that, seminar has a function to bring a small group in a particular place for meetings to exchange ideas and opinions between teachers and student. The seminar is also a way for teachers to reach the students where students can listen and learn a lot from it.

Anni Wellun Posted By : ANNI BINTI WELLUN (D20112054766) Date posted : 11 Mar 2012 09:02:58 PM (4 read/s) As adult educators plan for professional development, it is important to consider all of the above approaches. There is no single best approach to professional development. It is for multiple approaches to be integrated with one another and address the complex and dynamic characteristics of specific program contents and learner needs. Often, Workshops or Presentations may be a first step in the professional development process, particularly if the purpose is to raise awareness among participants regarding new ideas or strategies. A workshop may be a vehicle for introducing practitioners to other approaches to professional development. To practice a new skill introduced in the workshop and choose to follow up with the Observation and Feedback approach. The practitioners may wish to explore a new concept introduced in the workshop through the Inquiry or

Research approach. The workshops or conferences may be held to discuss needs assessments and to collaboratively plan program-or product-development activities.

Posted By : SATIAH BINTI MANSUR (D20112054037) Date posted : 11 Mar 2012 11:57:23 AM (22 read/s) A responsile educator teacher should be aware of duties and responsibilities assigned to lead the country to educate our generations. Therefore, teacher should have knowledge and trained from time to time. To face the challenges and obstacles an our profession should attempt to equip themselves with variet of strategies in teaching and learning. Among the activities that can help to improve the teaching profesional organized by attending any courses parties.With the workshop or ICT will make the teacher a proactive and responsive to current technologi. Therefore,with excellent workshops ICT courses will prompt teacher to be a proactive toeard current technologi.

Posted By : MUHAMMAD JOHARI BIN AHMAD (D20112054650) Date posted : 10 Mar 2012 11:43:50 AM (9 read/s) Professional development means skills and knowledge for career development. Some professional development activities are mentoring, in house training coaching, communities of practice and lesson study. All of activities for enhance the advancement all of teacher. Example enhance progress in the field of teacher and learning than it also can produce quality students.