Professional Development Week 1 Tutorial

Graphically list down a teachers professionalism from the competence aspect.

Explain your answer.
Questioning skill Teachers are able to motivate students in learning and thinking.
Teachers should be able to use questions of higher-order so that
students think critically such as able to explain, expound and
voice their own opinions.
Planning Effective planning is essential to good time management. It can
be broken down into long-term, mediumterm and short-term
planning. Teachers have to plan what they want to achieve for
the year.

Graphically list down a teachers professionalism from the character aspect. Explain
your answer.
Active listening Listen with purpose, listen to obtain direction, listen to identify
elements in a text, listen to be able to repeat
Communication skill Communication refers to social interaction performed through
messages. Messages are formally coded events, symbols or
signals or representational events which are of shared
significance in a culture and which are produced for the purpose
of evoking responses.
Interpersonal skill Reflection: teacher states an opinion, a wish, a belief or
preference to the class or when he asks a question which reflects
his personal view. The teacher provides direction, suggest
alternatives or redirect thinking among students towards the real
issues.

Graphically list down a teachers professionalism from the knowledge aspect. Explain
your answer.
Thinking skill It comprises the mental processes, strategies and
representations people use to solve problems, make decisions,
and learn new concepts. It has to do with organizing, analyzing,
evaluating or describing what is already there. Among the critical
thinking skills are inferring, comparing, compare and contrast,
analyze, supporting a statement, decision making, ordering,
evaluation, creating groups, investigation and experimenting.
Facilitation The quality of any learning experience will depend on the nature
and clarity of the demonstrations, the degree of sensitivity that
learners display towards them, and the opportunities afforded for
using and experimenting with new knowledge.