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GATE Language Arts Educators Professional Development MindMap index
Especially challenging and emphasize the need for strong professional development. Teacher education must shift from a focus on preservice training alone to lifelong professional development.
Teachers can set up a support group with colleagues and the goals of this form of collaboration involves a group of teachers meeting to discuss goals, concerns, problems, and experiences.
Need to expand their criteria for graduation beyond language proficiency and academic achievement alone.
Becoming a foreign language teacher means becoming a member of a professional community. In turn, becoming a member of a community means acquiring the common knowledge and shared values of that community.
Professional portfolio is an evolving collection of carefully selected or composed professional thoughts, goals, and experiences that are threaded with reflection and self-assessment.
Content of training determined by experts available in standard training formats. Examples of goals from a training perspective.
The nature of self-monitoring is starting point in teacher development is an awareness of what the teacher’s current knowledge, skills, and attitudes are and the use of such information as a basis for self-appraisal.