Assignment title: Continuing personal & professional development & reflective practice.
In the lifelong learning sector, employers have the responsibility to work closely with their teams and develop their teaching and delivery skills. it is important that their staff members and team are qualified to teach at all different level and take steps to develop their expertise. teachers must also actively research and develop their assessing skills, what other learning materials and ways of interacting with learning, what resources are out their to meet the needs of the individual.
“Continuing professional development means minting, improving and broadening relevant knowledge and skills in your subject specialisim and your teaching training, so that it has a positive impact on experiences and activities that improve practice. this demonstrates con tuning development as a teacher or trainer (institute of learning: 2009). i keep a continuing professional development (CPD) folder for evidence of my continuous training and development, this also consists of critical reflection journals on the different experiences of learning, as a result of this it creates an action plan for future development and training. it is important to develop the ability to reflect on my practice swell as my training and research, the methods used and theories incorporated into my practice. reflective practice demonstrates my understanding of how to apply, adhere to and implement theories. reflections are used as a starting point for accredited learning and are essential part of my professional continuous development. reflective practice should include personal reflection on the impact of continuous professional development, peer review; what my students and colleagues thoughts and views of my delivery, learner observations, observations of teaching and learning, collaborative working; what policies and standards were adhered to through out delivery.
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