Continuing Professional Development

In all professions maintaining and developing new skills is vital and some of these professions may require maintaining and developing skills more than others. Continuing professional development means professionals in all job areas are required to improve and develop new skills, expand their knowledge of information suitable to their profession. (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, 2016). It is important to keep up to date with new information and skills in all professions in order to achieve set goals and specific tasks given each day. Continuing professional development also improves and increases employability (CPA Australia, 2016). Continuing professional development is important because if a professional is not keeping up to date

Professional development is defined as an ongoing trainings, activities workshops, coaching or learnings that help an employee gain skills related to his or her job responsibilities. In education, on-going professional development is a vital step to ensure that teachers are equipped with best practices to prepare students for the future. According to Billingsley (2005), “Professional development goals needs to emerge from the needs of needs of teachers” (p. 96). As such, the use of surveys and interests polls is encouraged to determine the needs of teachers. After identifying staff needs, it is crucial for a leader to plan and execute trainings aligned with Adult Learning Theory to increase engagement, generalization and skill application.

The aim of this report was to evaluate the impact of registration and compulsory continuing professional development (CPD) on dental nurses by gaging views on how it impacts on job satisfaction and whether nurses were leaving the profession as a result. The main findings of the report supported registration, however highlighted the prevalent feeling that registration and CPD increased financial pressures which in turn lead to wide spread criticism of the cost of registration and whether it was relevant in making them do their job better.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) describes the cycle of ongoing development of knowledge, skills and behaviours for an individual in a professional capacity. CPD begins with reflecting on one’s current abilities, identifying any areas that need to be enhanced or any skill gaps, and setting development objectives. This is followed by planning which involves evaluating different learning activities to decide the most suitable option, and then the action of undertaking educational activities. Finally an evaluation of whether the learning objectives have been achieved takes place, this may highlight a further development need and continues the CPD cycle. The CPD process involves creating a record of learning accomplishments which shows

This week I had the pleasure to interview Barlow School principal Mr. Aponte. We discussed, analyzed and evaluated his school’s professional development program. Through the conversation we were able to discuss all the requirements that need to be taken in consideration when creating a PD program. We were also able to analyze his role as instructional leader, teachers’ role, the alignments of the PD to the Continuous Plan, the need of research based for instruction, as well as delivering and evaluating of the PD. I was surprise to learn that in there are many parts of the professional development program puzzle. Indeed, I learned that in order to create better learning opportunities for all learners, the school instructional leaders need

226). Before a professional development program can be developed, leaders must know what type of training is needed to use technology as a teaching tool. In assessing training needs, the superintendent must understand that all teachers are not the same and that the training provided should not be just random training, but training that relates to the applications to be used and training that fits into the overall district professional development

The New Teachers Mentoring is an outside organization designed to work with new teachers however; the program is not really implemented as it should be. The program has been in place for quite some time. The Sustainability Report was designed to establish a working relationship between the Mentor and Mentee with tools, structures, and ideas for working together effectively and to ensure the ultimate scale of stainability of the change of strategy. It is very important that this program is revised and reinstated to insure that teacher needs are met in and out of the classroom so that the retention rate is a thing of the past. The overall staff is mostly tenure teachers and there are many teachers that will soon retire

Continuing education and professional development impact change within the health care setting positively. It enables nurses to promote great delivery of quality care that each patient should receive. Nurses will have increase knowledge and widened skills in the field that they become competent to perform tasks assigned and make complex decisions that could have life or death consequences on patient care (Skees, 2010). Continuing education and professional development will take nursing expertise to the next level, thus promotion opportunities and advancement are more than likely to take place. Nurses have to keep up with the latest evidence to continue to provide safety. This is the biggest and important thing to be flexible about as nursing

Harris and Anthony (2001) The nature of collegiality and its role in teachers’ professional development is explored by comparing two data sets: one analysing the interviews with a veteran social studies teacher reflecting on her 30-year teaching career, and the other analysing the conversations of six beginning teachers as they participated in a shared inquiry group. Two different types of relationships with colleagues are described, one that provides a supportive working environment and one that results in significant professional growth. Implications for in-service professional development are discussed. In summary, providing teachers opportunities for continued development as they practice their profession is crucial for meaningful change

Continuing professional development requires structured processes and individual responsibility to maintain, develop and enhance skills, knowledge and competence both professionally and personally to improve performance at work and are necessary to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world. Being an effective educator requires staying up-to-date of the scholarship of teaching and learning as well participating in scholarly activities are necessary to increase personal and professional knowledge thus the process should benefit the individual, colleagues, students, external sponsors and clients, and the institution. Coaching, working in committees, development centers, actively participate in distance learning, e learning, project working,

Meeting the needs of faculty with professional development that fits their needs and abilities is not an easy task. Faculty-centered professional development had been shown to be more productive (Polly & Hannafin, 2010). Faculty centered learning helps instructors take ownership of what they learn and apply more in their classrooms (Polly & Hannafin, 2010). Personalized professional development for instructors has been shown to improve student learning (Yost, Vogel & Rosenberg, 2009).

A professional development plan is a plan written by an individual that consist of an strength and weakness , opportunities and the likely challenges to be faced in his personal and development life. I will start here by explaining what my personal development plan are in relation to my strength and weaknesses. I will explain these strength and weaknesses in openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism. The openness side of me state that I am a curious person, it state that I like change and I am very fascinated with new ideas. Conscientiousness side of me explains that I like to plan; I am very responsible and very organized. The conscientiousness side will help greatly in my job life. The agreeableness side of me explains that I like to make friends and that I am very trusting in nature. The neuroticism side of me explains that I am very calm person and I have the ability to withstand stress.

Define CPD and analyse its role in professional updating and improvement of practice with particular reference to your own approach to CPD

Providing teachers with access to resources that support the strategies learned during professional development is imperative for effective implementation (Schramm, 2006). Increasing teacher exposure to educational resources, benefits both the teacher and the student. However, in-order for resources to adequately meet the need of the teacher and student, professional development must be provided on effective use and implementation.

Birman et all. (2002) investigated the influence of professional development on teacher learning. Participants were estimated at 207 teachers from 30 schools in 10 districts. The research design was three-year longitudinal study in order to observe classroom activity. The findings showed that specific instructional practices or opportunity allowed teacher in taking part in the long-term activity such as technology and assessment practice, had influences on professional development on teacher’s instruction. It can be concluded that activity requires teachers to take part seems to be benefit. This is because teachers are involved contents which are concerned with daily work. Hence, teachers take part in activity involving their daily work has influence on professional