E-portfolio- standard H –and your video
What do you see the role of professional development being in your career?
I see professional development as a way to continue to self-reflect on teaching style, learn what is current in educational research and to help keep my teaching methods relevant.
Continuing to learn about educational practices will help to serve as a reflection tool in the classroom and a reminder to push myself as an educator. In my student teaching I have seen several veteran teachers that have used the same methods as when they began teaching, in some cases this works, but in many the teaching style is no longer relevant or successful with a new population of students.
Keeping up with educational research will help to develop new and different strategies in the classroom as well as to develop deeper understanding of the student population. In my secondary student teaching assignment I was in a school with a majority of students living in poverty. One assignment for professional development was to read the book "Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It", after reading the book we had small and large group discussion about the topic. A few weeks later the teachers did a poverty simulation during a professional development day. Both of these experiences were incredibly useful in helping to understand more about a part of the student population I was teaching and helped me to instruct in a more meaningful way.
Continuing to learn about educational practices will help to serve as a reflection tool in the classroom and a reminder to push myself as an educator. In my student teaching I have seen several veteran teachers that have used the same methods as when they began teaching, in some cases this works, but in many the teaching style is no longer relevant or successful with a new population of students.
Keeping up with educational research will help to develop new and different strategies in the classroom as well as to develop deeper understanding of the student population. In my secondary student teaching assignment I was in a school with a majority of students living in poverty. One assignment for professional development was to read the book "Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It", after reading the book we had small and large group discussion about the topic. A few weeks later the teachers did a poverty simulation during a professional development day. Both of these experiences were incredibly useful in helping to understand more about a part of the student population I was teaching and helped me to instruct in a more meaningful way.
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