What Personal Development happens in your workplace?
What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?
To facilitate the professional development happen, my school has launched a system called “AIMS” (like as below) in which the activities of staff development and online performance appraisal will be captured.
Per Fullan (1991), professional development can be defined “the sum total of formal and informal learning experiences throughout one’s career”. Likewise my school, we could be offered various professional development opportunities, e.g. educational sponsorship for formal educational programs (e.g. doctoral or master degree program), different seminars/workshops on different topics including both teaching and industry related topics, or teaching different courses in different semesters. However, to a broader sense, professional development can be considered all about making changes. I agree that we able to develop ourselves further in our careers through managing change.
However, I think there may be few factors that are not considered good enough in our school concerning the example of program curriculum restructure, like vision, resources and collegiality. In view of this situation, the change becomes confusion, frustration and isolation. I think this really reflects what we are currently encountering.
To facilitate the professional development happen, my school has launched a system called “AIMS” (like as below) in which the activities of staff development and online performance appraisal will be captured.
May I take the change in program curriculum as an example - our school has to undergo a program curriculum restructuring in which general education curriculum will become dominant. That means we have to manage a change in which we may face a new challenge of teaching general education program in future. The first task is to develop new general education courses for coming academic year. Before we could write up a course curriculum, we have been equipped with the general education knowledge and skills by inviting Fulbright GE scholars to conduct seminars. It is obvious this is an example of professional development due to the change in program curriculum.
To manage change in program curriculum, we need to consider various factors according to Newhouse’s change model as below.
Thanks for your inputs. Totally agree with you. I believe a better shared vision and resources can definitely help promoting the changes.
回覆刪除Thanks for your sharing. I understand our current encountering situation. To meet the new change, we need to spend much time and lots of efforts in equipping the New GE subject knowledge and teaching skills in our new academic year.
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