Reflecting on an E-learning Staff Training Event that I Witnessed for Six Years as a Participant

Teaching is a great profession because they are fundamental for the development and success of their students. Teacher is a gate in education system. Students are in school most of their day causing teachers to be role models. Teachers are somewhat like their parent while they are in school teaching, guiding and protecting them. Teachers mold their students towards greatness and to be more responsible. Students are learning more and more from teachers to combine their beliefs and morals from their families to succeeded in life. Teacher professional development makes teacher commitment reveal itself as a real driving force behind student

Standard 5.1 states that candidates will be able to conduct needs assessments to determine school-wide, faculty, grade-level, and subject area strengths and weaknesses to inform the content and delivery of technology-based professional learning programs. In this artifact, I was able to address this standard by assessing and coaching a colleague in integrating instructional technology. In order to assess my colleague’s level of technology use and attitudes towards change, I administered a Loti Questionnaire and a six-point Likert Scale. The responses on the scale ranged from “Strongly Agree” to “Strongly Disagree” with an additional response for “Other”. Mrs. Smith answered a majority of the questions with either “Strongly Agree” or “Agree” with the exception of one question in which she answered “Disagree”. According to her responses, Mrs. Smith is proficient in web tools that maximize student learning. She

Professional Development measures the degree to which teachers value continuous personal development and school-wide improvement.

In learning setting teachers can discuss news reports, situations, facts which can inform pupil about safety and provide opportunities to debate about possible outcomes of similar situations and different strategies that individual supports. Discussions/debates are perfect to find out various possible ways to protect themselves.

By doing Module 1 of this course I had opportunity to think about my career as a teacher. In order for me to improve learners’ learning I have to create for them appropriate environment using different teaching strategies in which every learner feels respected and safe. Learners need to know that learning has a purpose and what they are learning it is relevant to their lives. Also it is important to provide them with feedback regarding their progress on what they are trying to achieve, how far they are from the goal that was set. And how to achieve all I have to keep on trying new things and improving teaching skills. The actual teaching, classes I attended for this course gave me opportunity to better myself as a teacher. I learned about teaching principals from our teaching classes, later applied my knowledge in my actual teaching practice and also learned about teaching ideas through the web. From all these I understood that my development as a teacher should never end because teaching is a part of a life-long

The Volusia County School Board has sought to improve teacher performance and student learning with the introduction of the Professional Development System. This system encourages teachers to engage in continuous professional learning to increase their

At my school professional development in its formal sense is truly lacking. In the beginning of the year we had a week of lackluster professional development, so far we have had one day of PD to follow up on classroom management. As a senior teacher and 10th grade team captain I have observed many teachers complain about needing classroom observations, feedback, professional development that deals with lesson planning, data and data analysis, classroom management and even expectations. In our school we are a very young group, the oldest teacher being early

We were able to present an Instructional Technology Plan that guide major adoptions in technology for the schools with special emphasis on the integration of technology to teaching and learning. Once implementation began we were able to see Interactive Whiteboards in every classroom in the High School and most core content area classrooms in the middle school. Elementary was reserved to a second year and every classroom and School Library was included in the initiative. The plan was owned by the stakeholders and they were engaged in professional development to take full advantage of the technologies.

Traditionally, teacher development typically occurs through trial and error in the isolated confinements of each teacher’s classroom with some periodic whole-group professional development (Goddard & Goddard, 2007). Within the past few decades, many schools and districts, including ours, have considered and experimented with Professional Learning Communities (PLC) as an alternative framework in guiding a more efficient development program for their teachers. PLCs are focused on enhancing student learning through developing teacher practices. The concept of PLC relies on using structured collaborative sessions amongst teachers within the school to build internal capacity. Through PLCs, teachers critically reflect on current

Currently, the most prominent form of professional development is traditional professional development. But technology- enhanced professional development is becoming more readily available. There are many benefits to technology- enhanced professional development such as convenience, diversity, and social aspects. There are also benefits to traditional professional development such as face to face learning and being involved in the local community. Most strikingly there are very few disadvantages to traditional professional development, while there are many disadvantages to technology- enhanced professional development. Many of the disadvantages currently surrounding technology- enhanced professional development are due to the only recent development of the programs. Also, many of the disadvantages only affect certain people, such as people who cannot direct themselves. Many people are able to function as well if not better in online courses and forums as they do in traditional classes (Ramage, T.R., Introduction section, ¶1). Moreover, most of the advantages of technology- enhanced professional development outweigh the disadvantages. Ultimately it is up to the employee to decide what they are the most comfortable with. The process of ensuring personal and professional development is critical in the personal as well as professional levels of doing things and interactions. It is through such plans and their assessment of progress that one can conclude as to whether or not there is real progress or need for progress. During the process of implementation, we will realize that the best ways of achieving such goals are engaging in interactions with different people at different forums, conducting extensive research, learning from people and conducting continuous progressive practice. Through this, we will be able to achieve a great deal of our goals and look forward to developing more which will benefit both

Emerging technologies allow teacher preparation program the opportunity to effectively and efficiently communication with teacher candidates by providing immediate feedback more often (Scheeler et al., 2012). Feedback and support delivered via virtual coaching benefit and strengthens the teacher candidates’ experience (Rock et al.; 2012; Rock et al., 2014; Scheeler et al., 2006; Simpson,

Assignment 3 is a report concerning digital leadership and professional development. Prior to writing this assignment, the students are advised to explore 5-6 researches relating to the topics in order to acquire the essential information and comprehension to answer these two relevant questions: “What is digital leadership?” and “How to integrate the digital leadership concepts in teacher professional development ?”

A journal article authored by Yi Li titled “Is Teacher Professional Development an Effective way to Mitigate Teachers’ Gender Differences in Technology?” describes the results of a study designed to answer whether or not professional development can mitigate gender differences in how teachers perceive technology. The study compares external data collected by the pre-course and post-course surveys of a statewide professional development program. The study finds that female teachers can benefit from professional development and close the gap with their male counterparts. The study was found to have a clearly described research question and hypothesis, clear measures and data analysis, and a clear path for the reader from the research problem to the conclusion. The study was also found to be deficient in transparently reporting population and sample data and one conclusion was poorly supported by the external data.

Teacher education institutions play a very important role to produce highly erudite and skilful teachers. In modern era perspective teachers should be able to increase such knowledge and skills. Teacher education include to the policies, procedures and provision designed to integrate teachers with the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and skills they require to perform their tasks effectively in the institution, classroom and community. The curriculum of the teacher education should be accomplished of providing some information, communication skill, networking and soft skills .Soft skills that enhance an individual's interactions, job performance and career projection. A quality of teacher comes from a quality education process. A carefully designed and well planned education system is critical to developing teacher education. This is an exciting and challenging time for teacher educators. The nature of teaching is changing. In an effort to transform themselves into exemplary educator preparation institutions, many programs are becoming more entrepreneurial, recognizing new opportunities and making changes required to respond to the needs of 21st century learners. The purpose of this paper is to explore the needs and utility of skills that has been integrated in teaching profession. Now this time institutions become more technological enrichment, educators need basic technological skills for ICT base presentations, prepare report and taking attendance electronically.

The purpose of this case is to see and understand how e-learning tool contributed to an improvement in the processes of Cisco Systems by answering the following questions: