How to Self-directed Professional Development?
Hello guys.. In this session, I will talked about teacher professional development. Let's start!
Professional development is something that can give us a chance to expand our professional skills. It can be said that professional development is a programme or activity that can help someone more skillful.
Why teachers need to keep up with technology? Learning technology continuously is a never ending effort that should be performed by teachers. It is part of teachers professional development as well since learning technology and how to use it will eventually enrich their knowledge and deepen their understanding of how actually students who have been immeresed with technology learning today.
Through the use of teachnology self-directes teacher professional development nowadays is just a click away, such as:
1. Electronic Mailing List (E-mail List)
It is a special use of e-mail for delivering electronic mails to a number of e-mail recipients that belong to a group.
2. Online Forum (Messages Board)
Such as ELT community, EFL classroom, etc.
3. Social media
It is a place where people share and exchange information. Teacher can share and exchange information with other teachers in other schools through social media. They can do through e-groups that can be found in social media like Facebook, Twitter, Path, etc. You can join the intended group for example TEFL, ESL, TESOL, etc.
4. Open Online Course
It expect to get updated knowledge about education, they csn share knowledge, discussion on current idea, etc. Such as MOOC-Ed, Microsoft Education Network, and Coursera.
5. Online Seminar (Web-based Seminar)
Such as ASLD Webinars, British Council webinars, edWEB, etc.
The picture below is one example of my professional development to join a group teaching grammar via Facebook
That's all about professional development, thank you for visiting my blog. See you on the next post guys..
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