This is from a blog post http://edwinbruce.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/teachers-professional-development/
It is essential that teachers of Digital
Technologies receive ongoing training and development if they are to
facilitate relevant learning. Unfortunately this generally means that
teachers undertake training on Saturdays, Sundays or holidays. Fair
enough you may say, but would this happen in government or private
sector businesses? We are talking essential training here, and in some
cases (not at my college) teachers I have met pay their own fees. (Is
there a tax rebate possible?)
My view is that teachers of Digital
technologies should be allocated 2 weeks training p.a. and $5-$10k in
fees each year, at least whilst new standards are being introduced and
many teachers require up-skilling. The current “voluntary” and ad hoc
approaches are not good enough in my view.
Comment: I agree with the statements that are made above, we need training, and I lose a lot of time to be able to keep up to date with what is going on, though people do tell me I have 12 weeks off, though in reality I have four, most of my holidays is working on building up my profession, through reading, programming, developing resources, ideas, interaction with colleagues, attending conferences both in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors.
Digital Technologies is an ever changing field, I would like other curriculum areas to challenge us on how much there areas have changed, at present this is due to the change of standards, but with Digital Technologies we have a whole new curriculum area with learning objectives for the first time, and they are still be developed, Level 3 NCEA and NZC Level 8 have yet to be finalised and there are a number of issues with the new levels that have yet to be sorted out.
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