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<\/a><\/p>\nBecause there are so many different ways to learn as educators, I\u2019m using professional development on the whole as an artifact.\u00a0 Having been to several, including Janice Novakowski\u2019s Measuring Mania and Adrienne Gear\u2019s Reading Power, they have taught me many teaching techniques and ideas for lessons.\u00a0 Other workshops focused on other aspects of teaching such as assessment and reporting.\u00a0 They were all of value and have contributed to my accumulated knowledge.\u00a0 First came Adrienne Gear at Trudeau Elementary, where she provided the audience with a detailed and concise overview of the program she developed called Reading Power.\u00a0 She not only talked about the program\u2019s goals and advantages, but she also demonstrated specific techniques, lesson plans, and teaching resources.\u00a0 It was these detailed concrete examples which grasped my attention, as reflected in the notes that I was consistently jotting down while Adrienne presented.\u00a0 Of particular interest to me was the idea of the OWI (Observe, Wonder, Infer) and the flexibility of such a system to be adapted for all elementary grades.\u00a0 More importantly, learning experiences such as these expanded my view of education and motivated me to think about other lesson plans which could be adapted to a wide age range similar to Adrienne\u2019s OWI.\u00a0 Next came Janice Novakowski at Mitchell Elementary during the RPTA Extravaganza, which was a large assortment of different professional development workshops.\u00a0 This particular workshop, Measuring Mania again provided me with more lesson ideas and resource materials than I could record or remember.\u00a0 Unlike Reading Power, Measuring Mania was focused more on separate lesson plans and individual teaching techniques which could be applied to any class without chronological constraints.\u00a0 In this way, Measuring Mania taught me even more ideas that I could immediately implement than Reading Power.\u00a0 However, the key point is that both of these workshops contributed to make me a more knowledgeable educator than before.<\/p>\n
From experiencing many workshops throughout the year, I\u2019ve come to value the diversity in knowledge that the different workshops have taught me.\u00a0 One of the main reasons that we as educators must continue learning is because the world is constantly evolving and educators must reflect that change, whether it is new scientific innovations, different social values, or a better understanding of the world around us.\u00a0 As Julie Kennelly writes in her article, \u201cteachers entering the profession now, with a potential career extending over 30 to 40 years, will inevitably have to cope with ever changing information\u201d (Kennelly, 2007).\u00a0 The need for educators to participate in professional development such as workshops is further corroborated by researchers such as Huberman, Thompson, and many others where professional development opportunities are concluded to have a positive effect on the quality of teaching in the classroom.<\/p>\n
As I develop my teaching career, it is essential for me to gain as much knowledge as possible in the range of teaching styles so as to identify the teaching techniques which are most effective and beneficial for my students.\u00a0 More importantly, I will continue gaining further insight into improving any and all aspects of my teaching so that the advancements in the world is reflected in my teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Artifact: Professional Development Reading Power In my view, standard 7 means for educators to continue actively seeking improvements to their qualities of teaching throughout their careers.\u00a0 Although there are many ways to do this, professional development workshops are some of … Continue reading