Beyond these efforts, investments in formal assessments to evaluate each candidate's strengths and weaknesses, to develop professional development plans and to then provide for coaching arrangements to execute those plans can be powerful.
The inclusion of teachers in this process will help to develop professional development that is driven by both student and teacher needs.
"We have a longstanding practice of building things together," said Mark Castellano, president of the Teacher's Association of Lee County, which is now working with the school district to collaboratively develop professional development around the Common Core.
In terms of its educational function, the study has implications for defining professional standards, designing training programs and ongoing professional development requirements, developing professional learning theory, and improving practitioner competence and client outcomes.
Future research is needed to assess the quality of care and cost effectiveness that can result from implementing the guidelines, and to develop professional self-development programs for clinical nurses.
This study has further addressed the call for developing targeted professional development (Shannon et al., 1998; Baldwin and Wawrzynski, 2011) by identifying aspects that distinguish GTAs from faculty and that could be the focus of professional development.
The program consists of assessment, online training when knowledge deficits are identified, and a 3-day onsite education program aimed at reducing levels of self-serving bias in research, fostering ethical decision-making skills, teaching stress management and work management skills, and developing individualized professional development plans that will be tracked across the following year.
Given the scarcity of scaffolding in classrooms, we developed a professional development program (PDP) focusing on scaffolding.
COPUS data can also be used to develop targeted professional development.
There is a need to develop continuing professional development (CPD) courses aimed at clinical teachers based on the sound principles of effective continuing education.
