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EDU-537 Dr. Martin

Ongoing professional development

Mr. Reyes

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Strategies to Support Ongoing Development

Strategy 01 Get to know them

Strategy 02 Use Effective Feedback

Strategy 03 Provide Suggestioms

Get to Know them

Active Listening

Whether you are working with a team of professionals or just one person, there should be an arduous effort to get to know the person. Getting to know about their likes, dislikes, struggles, and preferences can become gateways to building strong relationships. Additionally, if one gets to learn about their interests, passions, and fears it will lead to opportunities that will offer better support. To know who someone is, it requires active listening. That means allowing the person to speak without interruptions. After a question is asked, if there is opportunity, affirm what the person has said. By celebrating their work, you will demonstrate that you are an advocate for them.

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Use effective feedback

Be positive, specific, and timely

One should consider several things when providing feedback. One of those is being mindful of teachers time. Their work schedule can often be filled with professional development meetings, PLC, lesson planning, and parent conferences. That is why it is important to be timely. Something that will help meet save time is being specific and intentional. One should be precise when offereing feedback and avoid giving general advice and suggestions. Talk abour specific strategies and how they will impact students. Also, one should remember to keep a postive mindset and praising teachers. Acknowledge their specific teaching practices and find ways to build on them.

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Provide Suggestions

Help by Offering Suggestions

There will always be difficult times when applying new strategies or when dealing with certain situations. In many cases, teachers can become frustrated and feel like they are at a standstill by neither seeing progress or finding difficulty. These are great moments to offer suggestions. After hearing what they teachers objectives are, one can assess the current situation and brain storm ideas that are helpful. For example, one can start by saying something like, "one thing that you could try is..." or "What ideas do you have about..." These are ways to help the teacher by also being supportive. ALthough it's a good idea to be stern and direct, it should be done with kindness and tactfulness.

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Promoting Motivation & Self-Efficacy

Getting to Know Them

By getting to know who the educator is, you will be better equipped to help them become more motivated and have self-efficacy. By learning about their goals, you can contribute to helping them achieve them. Offering helpful advice and strategies will undoubtedly lead to higher classroom achievements. This in turn will result in a surge of confidence and motivation. As a result, the educator will have a higher belief in their abilities to successfully complete tasks. By implementing strategies that are useful, the teacher will have self-efficacy that is long lasting.

Promoting Motivation & Self-Efficacy

Effective Feedback

When feedback is properly given, the recipient will attain many benefits. The result of giving sound feedback will help the teacher because he/she will make progress and reach their goals. This will translate to higher motivation as well as self-efficacy. For instance, suppose a teacher is working on new strategies to help bridge the reading gap of some of their students. By helping them achieve their goals, the teacher will more likely have higher self-efficacy. Their teaching strategies will be directly correlated to students' achievement. By yielding impressive results, both students and teacher achieve success. This will give the teacher more confidence in their teaching practices.

Promoting Motivation & Self-Efficacy

Provide Suggestions

There are many ways to help teachers overcome obstacles. One of those is by providing suggestions. Carefully thought-out questions that can help teachers find reasonable solutions is a skill that mentors must provide. When asking questions for the purpose of helping someone find a solution, one must be careful to hear what the teacher/educator is trying to accomplish. Well placed questions are relevant and congruent to the teachers' goals. Also, when an educator suggests, it gives the mentee a sense of ownership. They are actively involved in the decision making because they can choose to use the suggestions given. Their direct contributions to the implementation and success in the classroom will build confidence and self-efficacy.

Motivation and Self- Efficacy

Motivation

Self-Efficacy

Self-efficacy is the way a person perceives their capabilities and abilities to perform/learn a task. A person who experiences self-efficacy is comfortable with their abilities to learn a task and carry it out at a designated level.

Motivation is the internal cognitive that instigates and sustains goal directed actions. It is the driving force behind someone who continues to move in the direction of their goals, despite the obstacles and barriers that may lie ahead.

Motivation and Self-Efficacy

The relationship between motivation and self-efficacy

Self-efficacy is the belief someone has in themselves to meet their goals or reach an achievement. That directly correlates with motivation. When someone has confidence that they can meet the standards of a task, they also have the motivation to carry out and fulfill it. By being motivated, the person is more inclined to take the steps necessary to meet their goals.

Support for Ongoing Development

There are several things that you must do to help support adult learners. It is important to use strategies that will help everyone. There is no one-size-fit all approach, and there will be times when the strategies used are ineffective. For that reason, it is important to remember to be flexible. Also, one should be reflective. One must reevaluate how they are doing as a mentor and strive to improve. By doing so, it will ensure that adult learners are receiving significant help that will lead to success within the classroom.

References

Waller, A. (2021). 6 simple ways to build trusting relationships with staff. Edutopia. https://www.edutopia.org/article/6-simple-ways-build-trusting-relationships-staff/ Fixsen et all. (2014). Effective coaching: Improving teacher practice and outcomes for all learners. https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/NCSI_Effective-Coaching-Brief-508.pdf B. (n.d.). How to Give Constructive Feedback to Teachers – Six Tips. https://buzzingwithmsb.com/2016/11/six-tips-for-providing-constructive.html

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