Teaching Is a Hard Profession

 Teaching is a so hard profession.  Teachers must always stay aware of their mistakes. Professional development is a method that teachers can improve themselves. Professional development is a commitment to continue thinking about your practice and profession. It has to be continuous through their career. Teachers obtain knowledge, skills and attitudes.
  Many teachers participate in professional development to improve themselves in different areas. They work on improving classroom management abilities. It is common to face problems in managing the class. Professional development show new strategies and techniques to lead with this problem. Through professional development, teachers learn different ways of teaching. They are able to go back to the classroom and make changes to their lecture styles and curricula to better suit the needs of their students. In addition, teacher work on developing language. Language skills improve in terms of vocabulary, grammar and writing. That neither teacher nor students also benefit from professional development. Student learning and achievement increase when educators engage in effective professional development. The teachers can evaluate the effectiveness of the professional development process through their own students.
   Teacher can learn new ideas and develop themselves through many ways. Training, such workshop and conferences, are ideas to help a teacher. There they can meet colleagues and share experiences with each other. Reading and writing also help to develop language. Sharing and discussing is a way where teachers from the same or different school can talk about problems that they face. Peer observation is an important way in which the school provides their teachers with. To illustrate, a teacher attend and observe her friend’s class then they discuss and reflect about it. To add, social media I another way to get more information and stay updated to new strategies and techniques.
Teacher to improve themselves must design a professional development plan. This plan contains sustaining, designing, promoting, delivering and evaluating. First, identify your specific career goals. Second, identify what professional skills you already have and which you need to work on. Then, choose how you will accomplish your goals and develop a timeline for accomplishing your specific targets and goals. Finally, evaluate your plan and measure your progress. All teachers should be actively working on their professional development. Making time for your own development may be a challenge.
   There are many programs in which help teachers identify the educational needs. Program to succeed should be designed to be respectful, supportive and relevant where participants have opportunities to practice skills and apply new knowledge. Those programs can be very creative. Teachers can takes strategies into their classes. It gave teacher what they really need to be successful. It helps also in making the space where they work on to a funny and collaborative environment.