Eltam journal no 2 8th eltam iatefl tesol international biannual conference managing teaching and learning

Professional development 
 
The professional development of a teacher represents professional and personal growth on a 
daily basis. It is a long lasting, continuous process which starts from the beginning of the 
preparation for this profession and lasts to the end of their profession as a teacher. If they choose 
to stay in that field of interest, itcan be a lifelong process, it is a process in which in different 
ways means training of the teacher with new knowledge, skills, strategies in the appropriate 
fields and capability of using the appropriate technologies. 
The most important and basic goal of the educational policy as a whole is the student; he/she is 
the center of all the processes, activities and fields of the educational sphere.Every student 
deserves to be taught by a competent teacher. But the question is how to provide competent 
teachers for all of them. It is possible only with a positive motivation of the teachers and making 
standards which will make them get promoted and motivate them to a lifelong learning. 
 
In order to get a competent teacher with the skills and knowledge needed for creating a 
favorable atmosphere and give the necessary knowledge to his/her students, the whole system 
should be dedicated to his/her development and with that the educational system will receive 
students who will accomplish the goals of the education. Placing clear expectations for what 
the teacher is expected to achieve and what he/she should do to accomplish that, the 
competences of the teacher should be clearly given.
In order for a good, complete and competent teacher to be built, he/she has to think in the 
direction of lifelong education and development. When a teacher becomes a teacher and stops 
learning and advancing he/she can never fulfill the standards which the educational system 
place for him/her; and he/she will never achieve a good atmosphere in the classroom and will 
never know the problems every student is experiencing. Teachers who stop working on their 

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professional development will never recognize the needs of the students and the education in 
general. The profession teacher needs a constant advancing, progress and following of the 
modern educational aspects. 
At the same time, the teacher has to have a critical view towards the education and a critical 
view towards his/her teaching and would work on the wider development of the educational 
process and system. 
So, the teaching profession is not static and permanent, inert, inflexible people cannot be good 
teachers. 
Retrieved from: 1.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/guidance-officers-teachers/events/professional-development-seminar
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2. 
http://imgarcade.com/1/professional-development-for-science-teachers/