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Professional Development: Invest in Yourself! |
Professional Development: Invest in Yourself!
Patricia Bruce
Why do we need professional development?
- Each of you hopes to grow and accomplish your individual goals.
- Discovering and using available resources helps you do your best, professionally.
- Perspectives change, education changes, everything changes! Think out of the box.
- Skills are everything!
- Self-evaluation, peer-evaluation, and instructor assessments can boost your performance.
- Invest in yourself! Go to workshops, courses, and presentations.
- Become a better educator.
- Hearing others’ stories will enliven your own career.
Ask yourself:
- What skill would I most like to improve?
- In what specific ways have I succeeded?
- What is my top teaching goal for the coming year?
- What can I do to make my teaching more fun for students?
- Do I still enjoy teaching?
- What is my proudest accomplishment?
- What difficulties have I faced?
- What’s the most fun I’ve had at work?
- What are the best things about teaching?
- If I could go back and do one thing differently, what would it be?
- What motivates me?
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