Planning for professional growth is an important part of our  professional responsibility. Effective planning involves looking beyond the present and taking a long-term, holistic look at our careers.

            During this planning process, we articulate both personal and professional goals and then select those developmental opportunities that are most effective in helping us reach those goals.

            Using a career development approach in planning for professional development implies that we must focus on the interaction between the individual and the organization.

To teach all students according to today’s standards, teachers need to understand subject matter deeply and flexibly so they can help students create useful cognitive maps, relate one idea to another, and address misconceptions. Teachers need to see how ideas connect across fields and to everyday life. This kind of understanding provides a foundation for pedagogical content knowledge that enables teachers to make ideas accessible to others.

            Especially important is content knowledge that deals with the teaching process, including the most useful forms of representing and communicating content and how students best learn the specific concepts and topics of a subject. If beginning teachers are to be successful, they must wrestle simultaneously with issues of knowledge as well as teaching principles.

To teach is to first understand purposes, subject matter structures and ideas within and outside the discipline. Comprehension of purpose is very important.

 

 

By: Jennifer O. Dela Rosa | Teacher I | Salian Elementary School | Abucay, Bataan