This study found considerable agreement about the inequitable power and privilege afforded to medical compared with non-medical faculty, especially in the areas of salary, promotion criteria, opportunities for professional development, and leadership assignments.
Aggregated at a school or school-district level, they can inform choices about curriculum, textbooks, staffing assignments, and professional development or additional training needs.
The GTC will make teaching assignments with professional development of teaching in mind, as opposed to solely considering departmental need.
Education strategies used in transition programs have included course work and classroom sessions (covering clinical and professional development topics), patient simulation, journal assignments, professional portfolios and "blended learning models" that utilise e-learning activities [ 31].
She oversees grant programs and professional development for artists.
While the number of professionals from different races or genders, for example, is important, rankings do not necessarily assess the critical issues that affect retention and promotion opportunities: access to quality work assignments and people who are dedicated to your professional development.
Given that GTAs may be future faculty members at academic institutions, there is also a need to carefully mentor GTAs and provide them with advanced instructional assignments as they progress in their teaching experience (Braxton et al., 1995); however, GTA assignments are typically made to cover departmental needs and not the professional development needs of future faculty members (Austin, 2002).
She said that some of the $450 million a year currently spent on professional development could be redirected to a program in which top teachers would leave their classroom assignments temporarily to serve as mentors to other teachers.
A continuous, credit-bearing professional development course must include an exam by which participants are formally assessed and graded; therefore, a written assignment was included as part of the course.
Some of the written assignments which the trainee secondary teachers undertake have "little impact on training or the wider professional development," they found.
Preparation of classrooms, professional development.
