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TPE 13: Professional Growth
Journal Reflection:
Developing as a professional educator is integral to becoming an effective teacher. Laws continually change, and the enormous amounts of information regarding professional, legal, and ethical obligations can seem overwhelming. Internet resources and collaborative sites can help educators stay informed about important issues. Districts, and even individual schools, can create information websites that address the variety of laws, policies, and regulations regarding these topics. In addition to these topics, professional development involves personal growth. This concept includes reflecting on instructional strategies and practices, collaborating with peers (even asking for constructive criticism), and modeling the notion of lifelong learning for students. The latter concept implies continued education and training – not only in a specialized field, but in pedagogical skills as well. Educators can use word processing programs to record their thoughts during reflection. In fact, teachers could even develop their own database in order to document the instructional strategies that work best (as well as those that do not work well at all) in specific situations. Collaborative sites can be utilized to share ideas and strategies. And educators can partake in continued education with online courses and individual research efforts.
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