Self Directed Profesional Development

Once you are graduated from the teacher training center, The question is "will you stop learning?" If you go to shool and you meet your students, would you think that your knowledge you learn today will be sufficient enough to answer all their questions or equip them with enough knowledge and skills for their future? I believe you know the answer already. And I believe you agree with the idea that what you learn today will not be enough for equipping you for the future teaching challenges. Therefore, you will keep on learning and you will keep your self up dated with the lates technology in education.

Why teachers need to keep up with technology? Why don't we just let the students work with technology themselves and just give them assignments to do? Aren't they familiar with technology already? But how will we ask students do something with technology if we do not know what technology is available and the potential of it? Even worse if we do not know what might be the potential danger that can possibly brought about by the technology. So, learning technology continuously is a never ending effort that should be performed by teachers. It is part of their professional development (PD) as well since learning technology and how to use it will eventually enrich their knowledge, hone skills, and deepen their understanding of how actually students who have been immersed with technology learning today. It is important to always remember that without sufficient knowledge on how technology can be used in the classroom which very often offered via professional development activities teachers will never be optimally implement technology into their daily instructions (Skogerbo, 2013).

Professional Development does not always mean attending standardized and official TPD hosted by government, or teacher training institutions etc. It does not also mean a site-based one that includes many teachers and scheduled rigorously to meet the expectation of the teachers on site.Yet, it can mean just a self-directed teacher profesional development (TPD)(Gaible & Burns, 2005), initiated and conducted by the teacher themselves. The last type of TPD probably the most feasible one for us. since it requires only our will and itention to be better teacher. Through the use of technology self-directed TPD nowadays is just a click away. But how we can start our TPD? and what tools available on the Internet that assit self-directed TPD ?

check the following video presentation.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82qE9HJtmKU