What actually is the Professional Development

Shyam Prasad Acharya

Bhojpur

Professional Development

Professional development is an ongoing process of learning opportunity to renew, update and change oneself to satisfy the development needs of both the professional and the organization he/she belongs to

The Cycle of Professional Development

·                      Reading

Participants of JIT

·                     Learning

·                     Unlearning 

·                     Relearning

Reading:

      Creating knowledge base through continuous acquisition of latest relevant ideas and information

Learning:

      Establishing knowledge base to accommodate changes and innovations resulting from a continuous quest for upgrading one’s career path (from supervisor to secretary – administrative purpose)

Unlearning:

      Deconstructing one’s repertoire to give and create room for compliance with changes of time, space and speed (transforming oneself from assumed roles to functional roles – the expert

Officers in JIT

professional)

Relearning:

      The act of utilizing the updated knowledge base to address unpredictable problems of one’s profession created by the ever learning organization (application of wisdom)

What Professional Development is not?

• expectations of instructors/trainers

  

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• Year-round nitty-gritty trainings, seminars, workshops
• Attendance at conferences to escape the burden of work
• A tool useful only for new bulls
• Useful primarily for salary enhancements or professional advancement

Goals of Professional Development

   

The main goal of professional development is to improve classroom instruction and student achievement through:

• Practical, hands-on training with specific classroom practices or standards
• Creative activities for enhancing personal growth and increasing self-awareness to be

  

  Delivering speech by Director Bishnu Pd. Thaiba

  transformed into the classroom

• Another goal is to find the kind of professional development that would best fill any gaps in one’s professional life

• The third goal is to identify ways to address learning needs in the classroom 

The Action steps to Professional Development

• Assess the current state of professional development in the education system

• Provide on-site development activities through:

               –      lunchtime discussion groups

               –      lead discussion on topics of interest

Most of the participants of JIT 2009 with S.K. Shapkota

               –      information learned from reading, teaching, or conference attendance.

• Invite guest speakers from school or community to deliver talks on the topics of supervisor’s interest

• Visit book fairs and other relevant exhibition

• Invite one or more publishers to set up a display of their text

• Be available to answer teachers’ questions

              ·                     Observe fellow professionals to get new ideas for performance management

              ·                     Invest in materials to have a local collection of supervisory materials and resource    references

            ·                     Install computer in your working room to have an easy access to internet facility

•  Use trainers' experience and knowledge to bring their expertise to bear on all aspects of professional development

• Avoid as much "top-down training" as possible (cascading of training)

• plan faculty meetings, seminars, orientations, and other professional events.

  

  A cube of S : Sashi, Sunita and Sabita 

•  Assess your commitment to professional development
• Seek out opportunity (beyond the available)
• Voice your concerns and opinions

• Be a student again (relearning)
• Be a reflective learner
• Be a contributing member of supervisors’ community
• Think about learning new things that may help you bring more creativity into your profession
• The Professional Support
• Visioning of professional support is asking what we really want as an opportunity to create a future of professional growth

"The future of professional growth does not just happen, it is rather created

Without the vision, there is no chance of creating a future

A vision is a picture of a preferred, desirable future

The professional support is therefore a dynamic picture of the future"

The professional support is a forum for:

• Shared professional development
• Shifting  power
• Delivering freedom

  

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• Sustaining freedom
• Reinventing freedom

The Professional Supervisors and Instructors

• Set realistic expectations with:

–       Clearly stated educational outcomes

–       Standard of performance

–       Measurable indicators as a built in system.

• Develop a realistic plan with involvement of main stakeholders
• Adopt a quality model to establish national and district-level quality standards
• Self-assess the performance based on the established standards
• Avoid the "quick fix" mentality
• Develop an auditable quality system for one’s work
• Assign a meaningful portion of team members’ work to the development of quality

Participants in refreshment

Finally, learn to benchmark and identify the organizations that have developed the most effective processes for professional development 

डॉ. Basudev Kafle

 

Thank you for reading those points on Professional development. 


This article is the summary of the class presented by Dr. Basudev Kafle, Adviser of NCED. This class was delivered in 2009 in NCED Bhaktapur.

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