Lecture 1 - Principles of Professional Education (PDF)

The Guiding Principles for Professional Education 1. More is better 2. Clarify & prioritize outcomes 3. Create Collaborative, Reflective Learning Communities 4. Embrace online tools 5. Five Core Features 15 ...

The Guiding Principles for Professional Education 1. More is better 2. Clarify & prioritize outcomes 3. Create Collaborative, Reflective Learning Communities 4. Embrace online tools 5. Five Core Features 15  1. More is better Long-term sustainable and intensive professional development is needed to affect not only an instructor’s knowledge and practice, but also foster change in student performance and achievement. These are generally agreed upon outcomes of effective professional education. 16  2. Clarify and Prioritize the Outcomes Clarity of desired learning outcomes. It is necessary because it helps define and design the appropriate program model, features, and characteristics of effective professional development. 17  3. Create collaborative, reflective learning communities When communities of professionals from the same level, subject, school, or organization can interact and collaborate over time, professional development is more effective.. 18  4. Embrace Online Tools Online tools and technology provide powerful professional development opportunities. These can be used to complement but should not necessarily replace face-to-face activities. 19  5. Five Core Features Professional development best practices frequently include the following five core features: 1. Integrated content & pedagogy: Students tend to be more engaged through holistic, authentic learning, resulting in more flexible and critical thinking. For example, the more students learn, the greater the enjoyment of the processes, and more open to self-learning in future. 2. Coherence with standards and policies: Policy coherence is adopting the strategies and roles developed by government. For example, learning new techniques that is formulated by the government agencies without causing harm to others. 20  5. Five Core Features Cont’d 3. Active learning opportunities: Engaging students in deep learning and promote higher-order thinking skills like knowledge application, analysis, and synthesis. These include classroom activities or teaching-learning strategies that actively engage students with the course content such as small group discussion, problem-solving, role- playing, concept mapping, and case studies. 4. Mentoring/coaching/apprenticing: For example, mentorship in the Nursing Profession- Mentorship offers many benefits and opportunities for the nursing profession, where mentorship impacted the careers of nursing leaders. In this profession, mentors offer coaching, guidance and inspiration. 5. Individual learning: For example, learning new knowledge, skills, and develop competencies to improve the job performance. 21