Teachers' development.
There are a
lot of definitions that approach the meaning of teachers'
development from different perspectives. Some of them are presented
bellow.
Porter and
Henderson (Karagiannes G., 2005, p.38) give a sweeping definition. They mention that development is the
summation of activities and measures which are adopted and applied with
exclusive and primary aim to develop the academic or practical and personal or
professional knowledge, skills, interests and abilities of teachers during
their service.
Another
definition that connects development with the every day teaching is given by
Maurogiorgos (Karagiannes G., 2005, p.39).
He mentions that development must have as a primary and basic aim the
scientific support of teachers, in order to be in position to make reasonable
and conscious choices, after they have examined the starting points, the aims
and implications of their educational act, as to the material and ideological
terms of their school and society.
Hargreaves
(Karampiny P., 2005, p.139) gives emphasis to the personal development, saying
that development is a continuous and repeated procedure, organized
systematically, which is placed among life long learning and adult education,
and creates favorable terms for professional and personal development of the
teachers.
Grossman
(Phocialy P., 2005, p.132) gives emphasis in procedures that
lead to professional development, through which teachers must
develop ideas and visions that have to do with school culture, professionalism
and the awareness of their social part.
Finally,
what does development means and to what does it aim? Summarizing, someone may
say that teachers' development, either the organized one or the one that
is leaned in experience or self development or the informal development through
the exchange of experiences, is a procedure that is placed among lifelong
teachers' education and aims at their personal
development and by extension to their
professional development.
The teacher
is a distinctive personality that demands, within the frameworks of his job, to
be heard, trusted, respected, looked up to, watched out and encouraged (John
Mac Beath, 2005, p.36). Through teachers'
development a lot of these could be achieved.
Greek
References (in Greek)
Καραγιάννης Γ., Στάγια Π.,
Τσιρίκου Μ., (2005), «Η συμβολή της επιμόρφωσης στην αποσαφήνιση και τον
επαναπροσδιορισμό του ‘ρόλου’ του εκπαιδευτικού», Σύγχρονη Εκπαίδευση, τεύχος
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