Assignment 2: Personal Professional Development

Investing in the continued professional development of people is beneficial, for employee morale and for the company’s bottom line

Narrabundah is located in the inner south city of Canberra, ACT. The ACT Government acknowledges the Ngunnawal people as traditional custodians of the Canberra region (ACT Government,2010). We acknowledge the Ngunnawal custodians of the land and recognize their continuing connection to our community and pay our respects to them, their culture and to their elders past and present. The Canberra region has also been identified as a significant meeting place to neighbouring clans including the Ngarigo, Wolgalu, Gundugurra, Yuin and Wiradjuri people (NATSICC, 2016).

The PD’S that have and still are the most successful to me are those that fulfill my need or focus on what I enjoy teaching and want to improve upon as an educator. I love any PD on social studies and literacy. It is what I enjoy teaching, but I also yearn to be technology savvy, a competency that must be fulfilled in this growing age of social media. Professional development is great when there are resources to use, time to collaborate with your building staff, teachers from other buildings and the time allotted to process the information presented. When sessions incorporate video clips and activities to motivate and excite, you are more interested. One aspect mentioned in the Mizell article,” Why Professional Development Matters,” is the ability to analyze information presented and share experiences related to the learning.

The Programming Mechanics and Mindset course adopts PeerWise as a part of its development to engaging students who are learning about programming and to help instructors track student progress outside the classroom. However, there are some drawbacks in this professional development initiative, which are addressed in the Instructional Objectives, Instructional Strategies, and Assessment of Instruction. These hinder student achievement. Ultimately, the professional development initiative is completely unsuccessful.

In today’s competitive business world, it is important to have fully trained and well-versed employees, which can help make or break an organization. By having an employee development plan, or career path if you will, it allows employees to set career goals. This allows companies to ensure employees are fully capable of performing their assigned duties. The following chapter, Chapter 9, discussed methods of employee development. This chapter covered current trends associated with formal education, effective development strategies, as well as how to design a

Seniors have much more free time than juniors, sophomores, freshman and so on. Using the 100,000 dollars that was given to the senior class for a senior lounge would be a perfect idea. Seniors are on their last year of high school, and the lounge would be a great place for them to be together for one last year. Also, lots of seniors are in college classes. These classes can be very challenging, and the seniors could work together on their homework and study for upcoming tests in the lounge.

How did you make a difference in moving this organization forward? - Instrumental in creating a first-year savings of over $400,000 through the establishment of an international workforce strategy. I was the first U.S. manager to travel to Warsaw\Gdansk to spend three months in country facilitating interviewing and performance management for database, software, and quality engineers in support of Acxiom’s 1st strategic workforce initiative to ramp up a new division in Poland.

The term professional development is where an individual can work on their own or with a mentor to set the goals of learning and training, it is also about improving and increasing capabilities of staff through access to education and training opportunites in the work place.This will improve everyon's understanding for you to work better within a work setting, you will be working your way up to the standards which are required in your job

Educators across the nation are faced with increasing demands on their workday, from data-driven instruction, emerging research on best practices, administrator observations, and continuing education in addition to creating lessons to compete with distracting technologies, professional development that is turn-key and tailored to individual educators is integral to professional growth. Professional development offerings have long been of the one and done variety leaving educators feeling excited by the prospect until implementation fails. Without the ongoing support of the content provider, often, professional development lessons are not utilized in the classroom as much as educators would like. One response to the growing need for professional

In this short essay my own personal view on professional development will be made evident through reviewing past experiences, allowing recommendations for better practice to occur. Other topics discussed and analysed will be; the structure of the organisation, the effectiveness on leadership and management. My own role within the organisational structure will be reflected on, considering the impact of skills in practice, further, justifying what I will need for future personal and professional development.

It is our mission in the Sidhu School of Business to integrate our students into professional leaders by:

Professional development for a Clerical or Service staff member begins when they make a request for a professional development plan. Their Supervisor, with advice from HR, would help the staff

This essay is concerned with my personal development and continued professional practice through the skills that have been enhanced this year. Firstly reflecting on my personal development, considering what my original expectations were and how it has changed. Whilst discussing self esteem and the experiences of over coming challenges whilst making friends and how that has impacted my learning. Secondly the focus on professional development, time management skills that have been improved as well as ICT and organizational skills. It considers Gibbs (1988) and Kolb (1984) reflective cycle and Charles Cooley 's looking glass theory (1964) and how this reflects on my practice. Lastly discussing how my personal pedagogy has been transformed into knowledge gained from theoretical frameworks expressing an understanding of different psychology schools such as Piaget (1936) cognitive development and Vygotsky (1978) Social Development theory. Furthermore considering, Bowlby (1973) attachment theory and Bronfenbrenner (1979) bio-ecological system and there impact on Early Years development. Finally concluding with how the knowledge gained in this degree course has determined my personal pedagogy as well as my future plans.

Planned employee development should be one of the basic concepts of any organization’s performance management system. This is an attempt to state a broad policy which removes any option about people development by stipulating that developing people is a pillar of whatever system of management the organization espouses. This people development should be planned, not given mere lip service or expected to happen by itself. Adoption of this policy would guard against the simplistic

Self managed training is a when an individual plans, executes and evaluates his or her own learning. The learner is in control of when learning can happen, the duration and the learning experience or outcome. It is important to always review and adapt your training plan. It is unproductive to remain rigid with the plan, and allowing adaptations will improve its applicability and suitability to individual needs. On the job training is another way to self manage training as it allows the individual to apply what they have learnt to real life experience and develop their skill set by actively taking on tasks and duties within their