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Professional development (reflection)

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Angel Villarroel

Teachers are always learning, both from their students and colleagues over the years. Completing the professional development assignment expanded the author's vision of what it means to be an English teacher beyond just teaching in the classroom. It highlighted the important responsibility teachers have in shaping students and the need for teachers to critically evaluate new strategies and approaches to apply in their classrooms.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT It is known that learning process for teachers is never done, even though we are the teachers in the classroom, we are always learning from our students and colleagues as years go by. When reading the five authors assigned, I could realise that our world as teachers is not only the classroom with forty five students in front, but is beyond that common expectation. Apparently, it seems that for many English teachers nowadays the only thing that matters for them is to attend to classes and speak in front of a class, but through this assignment I could expand my vision towards a more professional view of our future labour as in-service teachers of English. Also, I notice what to be a teacher of English really mean in terms of the important responsibility and commitment that we must have with our students as formers of people. On the other hand, during the elaboration of the ‘professional development’ assignment I developed my critical thinking with some authors when evaluating their theories and concepts they developed in the papers, which is a good way to help us to be critic when reading and assessing new strategies, approaches or techniques to apply in our class, selecting the one that best fits to get good results with our students. Angel Sandoval Villarroel.

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Professional development (reflection)

  • 1. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT It is known that learning process for teachers is never done, even though we are the teachers in the classroom, we are always learning from our students and colleagues as years go by. When reading the five authors assigned, I could realise that our world as teachers is not only the classroom with forty five students in front, but is beyond that common expectation. Apparently, it seems that for many English teachers nowadays the only thing that matters for them is to attend to classes and speak in front of a class, but through this assignment I could expand my vision towards a more professional view of our future labour as in-service teachers of English. Also, I notice what to be a teacher of English really mean in terms of the important responsibility and commitment that we must have with our students as formers of people. On the other hand, during the elaboration of the ‘professional development’ assignment I developed my critical thinking with some authors when evaluating their theories and concepts they developed in the papers, which is a good way to help us to be critic when reading and assessing new strategies, approaches or techniques to apply in our class, selecting the one that best fits to get good results with our students. Angel Sandoval Villarroel.