Professional Development

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Professional Development

• Kai-ming Cheng
• Chairman, Advisory Committee on Teacher Education
  and Qualifications

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• Quality Teacher for Quality Learning!
• Quality Teachers are Learning Teachers!

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Teachers Capacity

• Subject matter
• Capacity of Lifelong Learning
• Basic intellectual attributes
• Science art of learning and teaching
• Knowledge of student development
• Capacity to change
• Professional attitudes and values
• Capacity of social interactions
• Continuous learning, adaptation and innovations

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A Degree
Professional Qualification
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Workplace Internship
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Continuing Professional Development
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Teachers Professional Development
Initial Education
Continuing Professional Development
Intern-ship

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Intern-ship
Initial Education
Continuing Professional Development
Teachers Competencies Framework
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Teachers Competencies Framework
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Teacher Competencies Framework
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• Teacher Competency Framework
• as a framework
• as a map
• as a tool for long-term planning

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Continuing Professional Development

• Towards a Learning Profession (2003)
• Initial responses
• No hard audit
• Initial survey encouraging
• Hours not a major concern
• Quality Effectiveness

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Continuing Professional Development

• Towards a Learning Profession (2003)
• CPD Activities
• Academic programmes
• Interschool sharing
• Seminars/Talks/workshops
• Staff Development
• Research Development

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Continuing Professional Development
Academic Programmes
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Continuing Professional Development
Seminars/Talks
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Continuing Professional Development
Inter-School Activities
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Continuing Professional Development
Sharing
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Continuing Professional Development
Professional Conferences
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Continuing Professional Development
Research Planning
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Continuing Professional Development

• Towards a Learning Profession (2003)
• Steering Committee
• Overseeing and steering developments
• Identification of Success Stories
• Dissemination of Good Practices
• Demonstration of multiple models
• Facilitation of a professional culture

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Initial Education
Initial Education

• How do we prepare teachers for new challenges?
• Research
• Teachers perceptions of the present
• Delphi study of the future
• Case study of advanced cases
• Steering Committee
• Consultative Committee

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Intern-ship

• How to adapt new teachers to the school reality?
• Initial thinking
• One year leading to Registration
• Portfolio facilitated by Mentors
• Monitored by external authority
• Task Force for Infrastructure
• Task Force for Professional Criteria

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• Quality Teacher for Quality Learning!
• Quality Teachers are Learning Teachers!

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• Thank you!