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Teachers, sometimes it gets hard. Or perhaps work has been consistently tough over the last two years. Apart from heavy workload, sudden transitions to online learning and relentless pressure from schools and parents have led to us teachers feeling burnt out and experiencing poor mental health. Teachers may end up re-evaluating their career in education.
Professional development for early childhood educators is an important step towards becoming a leader. Remember that learning does not stop after graduation. Continually seeking sources of new knowledge is necessary in a fast-changing early childhood education industry.
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Research on adult learning has shown a disconnect between research-based practices and traditional professional development models in educational institutions. However, with a modern, virtual approach to professional development, we can tackle the following challenges in teachers’ professional development to provide more innovative and personalized learning solutions.
Students and teachers should strive for a meaningful learning experience. However this is an ambitious vision for learning and teaching. Investments in professional development have often been ineffective. What are some common challenges schools and teachers face in their professional development and how can we tackle this?
Professional development for teachers is a programme that takes into account teachers’ performance evaluation. This can improve their work and student achievement. However, many systems may invest in professional development as part of a templated checklist, without much consideration of its effectiveness or how it fits into the school’s or education system’s wider goals.
Early childhood education educators are exceptional. They do so many things – teach, facilitate social and emotional learning and are working professionals with career development goals. Having clear career goals in mind can help teachers continue being motivated and be more effective at their job.
Early childhood education and care centres / schools should regularly evaluate and develop each staff’s individual performance plans. With professional development planned and secured, educators would be more likely to stay in their role.
So how does setting educators up for success look like? Read on to find out.
What is a “fragile context” and how would that impact teachers’ professional development? UNICEF defines a fragile context as one with an accumulation and combination of risks as a result of context-specific underlying causes combined with insufficient coping capacity of the state, system and/or communities to manage, absorb or mitigate those risks.
Teachers in these situations fight different battles every day and on top of that, face barriers to obtaining proper professional development.
In a partnership, it takes two hands to clap. Research has shown that teachers play a huge role in determining the level of family involvement in children’s education. However, involving parents in their students’ education might be challenging for teachers.
Therefore, here are some tips to help teachers facilitate strong home-school partnerships.
Parents and families play a major role in the success of their children’s education. Types of investment such as time taken to monitor academic progress, committing to school activities and working with the school to support their children. A successful home-school partnership has shown positive outcomes in students.
So how can parents play an active part in partnering with schools?