[September 26, 2020] Professional teachers always look to learn more and grow their abilities.
They are on an unending journey where they are always searching:
- New concepts or teaching tactics
- Ways to enhance their skills and expertise
- New details that will help their students to be successful
That is why, in this article, we are going to talk about 5 ways to make teacher professional development, which are the following:
- Promote student growth
- Personal presentation
- Make use of new technology like Grammarly and Plagiarism checker
- Essentials and new roles of a teacher
It takes a lot of work and effort to become a professional teacher.
It needs the effort to go to extra mile for the students who need it, and it requires tolerance to constantly grow and truly realize your craft as a teacher.
Let’s discuss the above-mentioned tips for professional teacher development in detail:
Promote student growth
As a professional teacher, it is important to spend time promoting student growth.
Measuring the student’s growth is the simplest way to identify that students are grasping the right information.
By conducting a test, one can measure the academic performance of the student.
In order to promote student growth, plan instructional strategies, apply high order learning skills, and solve problems of the students.
Personal presentation
Beauty is a vitality, it is an inner force that emits through the whole body: these include gestures, postures, looks, outfits, silences, and expressions.
The teacher’s body appearance is the reflection of his inner state.
If we have spiritual peace and harmony, then our expressions, postures, and movements will look more slender, natural, and interconnected.
The most attractive quality that can accompany the teacher’s presentation is an attitude that clearly displays the joy, sensitivity, commitment, effort, moral conviction, and intellectual honesty.
Make use of new technology like Grammarly and Plagiarism checker
Resources from information technology, multimedia, and telecommunications, innovative educational programs can be used in this regard.
These new technologies can help both teachers and students.
For example, if the student is facing problems regarding spelling and grammar mistakes, the teacher can recommend him to use Grammarly.
Similarly, the teacher can suggest their students use an online plagiarism checker to find the duplication percentage in the assignment.
All fields of the school curriculum could experience substantial changes in their teaching and learning process using computer resources.
Essentials and new roles of a teacher
It is also a crucial task of the good educator to construct bridges that communicate the students with different domains of knowledge.
The teacher must be able to express and feel sympathy, be always open and sensitive to the affective experiences of the students.
The true teacher is the one who encourages the following aspects:
- The audacity to be different
- The desire to explore the unknown
- Self-knowledge
- The fight for freedom
- The search for beauty
- Rebellion against injustice
- The desire to dream other worlds
A primary quality of a good teacher is his commitment to the human constitution.
A combination of motivation, arrangement, time management, and focus can help the students to stay on track and be able to accomplish results successfully.
Good article, ma’am. Good luck in your future of writings.
Do you have a website, Ms. Una? I’d like to go there and read more of your works. Yes, I’m interested. Or, a Facebook or other media?
I agree.
Thanks for writing in Gen. Satterfield’s website.
Loved your article overall, Freya, however, there is one thing that I must adamantly disagree with you. You write, “The true teacher is the one who encourages the following aspects:” and list “Rebellion against injustice.” This is NOT correct. The job of the teacher is to teach, not use their personal value judgments to indoctrinate students. In fact, this is exactly what is wrong with education in America today! Our education system is failing students and such comments only encourage it.
Good point, Janna! I also disagree with Freya on this point too. The rest of the article is well done and should be commended but saying a teacher’s job is to rebel against injustice, is way out of line. Why? Who determines what is “injustice?” Is it “systematic racism?” If so, how to you encourage kids to rebel against something that no one can find a solution to. That is why we have rioting in the streets today. Bad reasoning on Freya’s part.
Hmmmm, I think you guys are right on this point.
Correct, Greg…..Excellent writing except the idea that teachers are to encourages students to “rebellion against injustice.” Think this one thru first. Otherwise, good article.
One of the reasons that I come back to Gen. Satterfield’s leadership blog is exactly to see well-educated writers like Ms. Una. Educational article, thank you! 🙂
Great article, Freya. Thanks for sharing your passion with us. The professionalization of teaching is something worthy of writing about. I find that teachers have struggled lately to improve their image.
Yes, some good work here, Ms. Una. Thanks for what you do and for helping us with a different perspective on teaching professionals. Do you have a website or something that I could go to in order to read more of your writings? Thanks so much.