Wednesday, June 3, 2009
What ongoing professional development is important for sustaining professional growth? Explain.
As teachers, it is always necessary for us to grow professionally. How can we stay abreast of the situations and real-world activities and teach students the benefits of education if we cannot continue to grow ourselves? I enjoy being a student, as I think there is always so much more to learn about education and life in general. In order to make this happen, it is necessary that we have a district and school board as well as administration, that is in support of this growth, and is willing to do all that is necessary to make this happen, whether it be including new software technology, or updating technology altogether. It is also necessary that when teachers want to educate themselves further, that opportunities, whether workshops or classes, are made available and are addressed throughout the district to benefit the district as a whole. The opportunity to be part of this program is great, and it is wonderful that half of our cohort is from Port Washington, because it presents the notion that we are motivated and do want these professional growth opportunities presented to us on a regular basis.
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It is so important that a district does have a sustained and organized staff development program. It is true that teachers have to be motivated but it is also true that districts have the responsibility to support that life long learning. Ours is a profession that requires that quest for knowledge.
I agree that staff development is important in any district. The hard thing for teachers, especially elementary (since we teach all subjects) is finding the time to do staff development and where to even begin. I wish that districts would use inservice time for something that is useful to all that are there. Eventhough it hard to find the time, I agree that it is vital to our profession to stay current.
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