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Thursday, December 7, 2017

The Fundamentals Of Job Embedded Professional Development

By William Meyer


In the modern world, skills are increasingly on demand to deliver the needs of organizations, clients, government, and society. On-the-job professional development is one of the most critical means through which students and new graduates gain critical skills to enable those needs. Different professions such as medical professionals, teachers, engineering and other legal professionals have requirements for students to undergo such training before they are admitted to the professional bodies. For instance, in the teaching profession, job placement is emphasized to produce excellent teachers capable of inculcating literacy in students. Job embedded Professional Development enhances imparting of skills, experience and competence from the gurus to the novice professionals.

Learning comprises of many activities which cover the whole course. If a teacher is not keen, sometimes they will teach what is not helpful to their students. For example, different courses have different course outlines, which the trainers should stick to. Therefore, there has to be a connection between what is taught and what is offered in the program.

You need not just wake up and teach. Human beings are prone to forgetting. Not everything you trained you will remember. Go through the content and prepare some notes for your class. As you do this, you also remember or identify some materials that may require more emphasis and mark them. Moreover, you will get a deep knowledge of what is discussed on certain topics so that you find effective teaching skills.

The teachers must have a deep knowledge and understanding of the content. They also must find suitable ways to deliver the content to the learners. Comprehensive professional development is beyond techniques and trainers have to become a subject matter adept. They also need to employ practical skills and demonstrations to create understanding among students.

Teaching must deliver a sustainable content so that students can apply whatever they learn not only for classwork but also for the benefit of the society. Hence, all activities involved in teaching must not only focus on improving the performance of students in the examination but also enabling them to comprehend, retain, memorize and broaden their knowledge to employ the information into practice.

Teaching is a step by step activity. You cannot plan to train students on a whole curriculum in a just a single lesson. This is why books have also been divided into topics and sub-topics so that learning can be an incremental process. So, from one topic to another, the students understand better rather than when they are imparted with the whole curriculum at once. Also, take time to change your practice so that students have a good follow-up.

Collaboration among teachers is a critical element that has to be observed throughout their practice. As you interact with one another, you get to learn new ideas daily. For instance, intermingling and cooperation are good avenues for learning new teaching techniques, understanding and appreciation of work. Moreover, it is through collaboration that you find support for one another.

A teacher has to assess and evaluate the performance of their training. You can determine this by how students answer their examinations and their response in class. For instance, if you find out that the teaching does not work well, it is better to change it for improved performance.




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