Enhancing Professional Development

With the discovery of the New World, a wave of settlers from various European nations crossed the Atlantic with unique motivations for their voyage. Whether they migrated for personal prosperity, or aimed to garner wealth and glory for their country, each individual was met with the marvels and trials of relocating thousands of miles from their birthplace. Spanish conquistadors were among the first to settle the Americas, in current day Mexico and the American Southwest. English pioneers and settlers followed shortly, colonizing the Southern Atlantic coast of America. However, geography was not the only distinction between the Spanish and English colonies.

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Career development is not just beneficial to the organisation. The impact it has on an employee is valuable as well. It allows for the employee to align career goals with personal goals.

Career development is comprised of three main objectives. The first objective is to meet human resource needs in a timely manner throughout the life of the business. The second objective is to provide information about open positions and opportunity for growth to the organization’s employees. The last objective is to use existing programs to develop and manage employee careers to match organizational plans and goals.

Planning and Organizing: Claudia continues to meet with her employees that are not meeting the performance goals, on a bi-weekly basis to review and discuss their previous week work performance. She formulates a detailed calendar of all assigned tasks for her unit, including any contingencies for necessary changes.

Guskey (1986) and Hashweh (2004) describe professional development as a systematic attempt to bring about change. Guskey (1986) and Griffin and Barnes (1986) specifically describe the change components: (a) change in the classroom practices of teachers, (b) change in teacher’s beliefs and attitudes, and (c) change in the learning outcomes of students. When developing his model, Guskey (1986) questioned the order of these components.

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Did You Know? is a professional development feature which provides caregivers with strategies to complement interaction with children. Example—Theme 4 (p. 36): When children ask you a question, encourage them to answer it before you answer it for them by asking: What do you think?” to allow children to organize their thinking as their verbalize their answer.

(This should lead us to the fact the goals of pd need to be flexible enough to accommodate all learners)

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.

I feel in all leadership areas the professional development needs to continue. Completion of a doctorate program does not render one an expert, but equips learners with the desire to continue to seek, discover and grow both professionally and personally.

In my teaching career it seems that I have intermingled through Snow, Griffin, and Burns’s (2005) model of professional growth that is based on five areas of knowledge- declarative, situated, stable, expert, and reflective (p. 9). I have diverse professional experiences in reading skills and literacy in my nineteen years of teaching. I have taught reading and literacy from kindergarten through adults. As a lifelong learner, I am constantly seeking to increase my knowledge and improve my skills as a teacher of reading and literacy.

This paper presents personal development plan which I have formulated to identify my career objectives and improve my interpersonal and professional skills. Personal development planning includes a set of questions which try to identify career interests, potentials, and competencies, collect relevant information for future decision making, and personal development matrix to identify short and long term goals and their respective actions to be followed.

At the level of career development, these measures are necessary to ensure the company hires and retains the best skilled and qualified staff members, but also that these staffs are motivated and driven in their career pursuit. The support for career development on the part of the employer generates employee loyalty, which in turn materializes in lower rates of employee turnover.

Every organization is ought to manage finance, resources, information and people. Every organization seeks for the most knowledgeable and deserving candidate to work for the well-being of the company. The biggest challenge arises for an organization when the external environment constantly keeps changing as regards to the laws, culture, technology and other similar factors. For employees to do well and grow, they need to be encouraged on timely manner hence to stretch their full potential. Training and career development are very important for any organization that aims to progress. Training simply denotes to the process of gaining the necessary skills required for a certain job. Likewise, Career development emphasizes on far-reaching