Professional development becomes essential for our everyday life, especially in the world of teaching and learning. Here in this blog, we have provided the five phases of the same which can help you in creating a comprehensive, ongoing and the most meaningful professional development.
Here are the five phases which often overlap, repeat and occur at the same time.
Professional Development: Know the five phases
- Build a Knowledge base
This phase focuses on gaining new information and knowledge to build conceptual understanding with the help of activities such as goal setting, assessing needs, interactive workshops, making study groups, etc.
- Models and examples to be observed
The second phase pays attention to developing a practical understanding by observing things. In this phase one will be asked to take part in activities like peer observation, listening or watching videos with examples, etc.
- Reflect on what you practice
The aim of this phase is to analyse the instructional practice of your new knowledge in which activities like using journals or teacher-authored cases will be very beneficial. You basically need to have a discussion and reflect on your practice.
- Change your practice
Coming up next is to get your new knowledge into collaborative plans and actions for instructional change by having action research, support groups, per-coaching as well as curriculum development.
- Attain and share expertise
The last phase of professional development is to gain and share expertise which is to refine your instructional practice learning. It can develop when you share your practical wisdom with your peers this is why activities like team planning, mentoring and participating in a network are added to this phase.
These are five phases you need to focus on if you want to have professional development and pay attention that none of these phases can be missed as they are all connected to each other and are equally important.