Author: BenjaminRenton

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Efficient Working!

Professional Development!

Leadership Course - The leadership course consist of learning many different leadership styles. It will vitally help a manager and many different types of teachers. This course is available on Thursday 28th of February 2013 Cost: £25.00, Lunch included. 9:00AM-2:30PM
Mentoring Course - Our mentoring course is highly recommended by previous participants. It is also recommended for teachers, this will vastly help teachers mentor there students. Course available on Thursday 7th March 2013—£20.00 Lunch included. 9:00AM - 1:00PM
Teamwork Development Course - This course allows you to develop your team work skills . The day consist of team based exercises and will also allow leadership skills to develop. This course is available on Thursday 14th March 2013 - Cost: £25.00 Lunch is not included and is from 9:00AM - 4:00PM. Highly Recommended!
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To run a business or a school efficiently, you and your staff need to be efficiently working. This will allow maximum progression. The best way to efficiently work in ‘lessons’ for example is to plan the lesson ahead. By planning the lesson it makes certain that you know how you will teach the lesson and also means you are making sure each lesson has a maximum outcome of learning! Another way to work efficiently is to find out how your students learn best, if they are ‘visual learner’ adapt to this and create lessons with PowerPoint's and use images this will allow them to learn better and more efficiently. The last efficient learning technique we will talk about for teaching is testing the students knowledge. At the start or end of each lesson test the students knowledge about the previous lesson this means the students memorize the information more easily and also will show you what they need improvement on. If you plan your day efficiently as well this will hinder you professional development if you plan to have 1 tutorial a day it will allow your development to develop quicker. If you want to efficiently work visit our open day 21st of February 2013 and see what courses are available and also see more ways to efficiently work with refreshments!

This Will Include...

What is professional development?
What should I develop In?
How do I professionally develop?
Recording professional development?
How do I learn best?
Efficient Working
Courses available

Ilfracombe Arts College
Worth Road
Ilfracombe
North Devon
EX34 9JB
Tel. +44 (0)1271 863427
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What Is Professional Development?

How Do I Professionally Develop?

How Do I Learn Best?

Professional Development is improving your personal skills in your profession e.g. Teaching. It allows employees to set themselves aims and goals to improve in there self. There are many different ways to professionally develop your skills. The main ways are by attending courses such as: Coaching mentoring and shadowing. These are the main courses used to develop you and a team quickly but can however be costly.
During this leaflet it will be based on IT & Business studies teaching.

What Should I Develop In?

During this leaflet it will be based on the role of teaching ICT & Business studies… Students still using old versions of software? Well what happens when you software is upgraded? Then problems occur during lessons! Teachers don't have the knowledge required to teach students properly about using the newer software, well this is were personal development comes in. With the ICT Industry newer software is being released every day! By self accessing yourself and realising what you need improvement on, then develop your skills and see the progress! In the ICT industry we recommend using the new software so you are prepared for change. Find out which learning style you are and then find tutorials for the appropriate technique. Another problems that occurs with teaching is students not reaching there target grades. This is one of the easiest ways to identify professional development. If you go through each student and work out why they are not reaching there target grades, then you need to understand how they could reach there target grades. Then finally work out what you need to develop on to enable them to reach there target grade. For example if the student is not attending lessons and is obvious why they are not reaching there target grade then you need to develop mentor skills etc.

The simplest way to professionally develop is by attending courses! If you need to improve your communication skills then attend a communication course etc. If you are developing skills in programs like Photoshop then watch tutorials on how to use specific skills then test yourself on editing different images. You should plan your development so that your learning 1 skill on Photoshop per day etc. Make sure you fit in exercise and relaxation!

Recording Professional Development?

Recording your progress in professional development is usually quite simple and easy. The easiest way to do it is by simply noting the progress down. So if you are developing skills on Photoshop note down the tools you need training on and then tick the skill once you know how to use it and teach it. If you’re visiting attending different courses tick off each course once its done. Make sure you regularly test your knowledge on the courses you’ve recently done and the skills on Photoshop for example you’ve recently learnt. If you lose your knowledge on them then use your notes to re-cap your knowledge on them and then test yourself again!

Everyone learns differently, there are 3 main learning styles which are: Visual Learning, Auditory Learner and Kinesthetic! But these then categorize into smaller sections. The way you learn and your understanding of it means when you learn new skills you will learn in a specific way, this will make it easier for you to learn and the knowledge will stay in your head for longer! Next we will explain what you should do if you’re a certain learning style, to find out your learning style visit: www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-learning-styles-quiz However, we will only explain the 3 main learning styles the are not as necessary!

Visual Learner - This means you best learn by visually taking in the information, This means tutorials on YouTube where they visually show you tools etc. would be a great way to learn, if your learning how to mentor etc. It would be good to see a video tutorials etc.
Auditory Learner - This means you learn best by listening and being taught like your in a lesson is the best way to learn. Audio tutorial to put on you MP3 player is good.
Kinesthetic Learner - This means you learn best by doing it yourself so by learning while using Photoshop or learning by actually mentoring someone etc.