1. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
It is known that learning process for teachers is never done, even though we are
the teachers in the classroom, we are always learning from our students and colleagues
as years go by.
When reading the five authors assigned, I could realise that our world as
teachers is not only the classroom with forty five students in front, but is beyond that
common expectation. Apparently, it seems that for many English teachers nowadays the
only thing that matters for them is to attend to classes and speak in front of a class, but
through this assignment I could expand my vision towards a more professional view of
our future labour as in-service teachers of English. Also, I notice what to be a teacher of
English really mean in terms of the important responsibility and commitment that we
must have with our students as formers of people.
On the other hand, during the elaboration of the ‘professional development’
assignment I developed my critical thinking with some authors when evaluating their
theories and concepts they developed in the papers, which is a good way to help us to be
critic when reading and assessing new strategies, approaches or techniques to apply in
our class, selecting the one that best fits to get good results with our students.
Angel Sandoval Villarroel.