This document discusses personal development for teachers. It defines personal development as focusing on personal skills like self-understanding, managing emotions, self-care, and relationships. Professional development concentrates more on teaching skills and strategies. Personal factors can influence how a teacher manages a classroom. The document also notes that teachers take on many roles and must deal with life challenges, emphasizing the importance of personal growth. It outlines several units and assignment options for a personal development class, including community service, creating a mission statement, and demonstrating interpersonal skills.

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By: Shemonon Stone

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What is Personal Development?
As stated by a teacher:
Personal development is when you decide what
skills you want to learn and professional
development is when others tell you what they
need you to improve.

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• Professional development focuses on technical
skills such as, pedagogy (the skill of teaching),
teaching strategies/techniques and lesson plans
• Personal development focuses on personal skills
such as self- understanding (awareness), well
managed emotions, proper self-care and healthy
relationships
• Factors of personal development such as a
teacher’s personality can impact management of
student behaviour in the classroom
environment.

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• Professional objectives represent “what you do
in the classroom”
• Personal objectives represent how you, the
teacher conduct yourself in the classroom as you
deliver your professional objectives

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When asked the role of what a good teacher
was, one person replied:
“ As a teacher I am a policeman, sergeant major,
counsellor, aunt, step-parent, advisor, nanny,
technician, nurse, judge, leader, nursemaid and
educator”
Teachers like other professions have to deal with
life changing events such as, pregnancy, birth of
children, divorce, separation, death of family
and friends, challenging relationships, financial
difficulties, illness and sickness in family
members

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10. Personal development is putting yourself
in a position where you are going to be
challenged and motivated to dig deeper
and reach higher to maximize yourself as
a person. It is taking control of your
personal growth and forcing yourself to
move toward greatness and better
yourself and consequently your future.

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This class will be divided into 3 units:
1. Understanding Self & Relationships
2. Life-Skills
Etiquette/Mannerisms
Good Deportment
3. Conflict Resolution
Volunteerism

12. There will be one assignment due at the end
of the semester.
The assignment may be selected from the
following list:
1. Perform 20 hours of community work
and report on the experience by
preparing either a (i) case study or a (ii)
reflective essay

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2.Prepare a personal Mission and Vision Statement
(similar to that of a college or company) which reflects
your unique purpose in life
3. Write your autobiography
4. Use clippings from newspapers, magazines and pictures
to prepare two collages of your life. Each object/picture
must speak to an aspect of your life.
a. The first must depict your life as it now exists
b. The second must depict how you would like
your life to be in the future (hopes, dreams,
goals, aspiration, etc

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5.Record an interaction with someone who has
evoked significant feelings within you. You will
need to have at least 5 entries.
6. Develop/Create a Scrapbook showing
appropriate modes of dress for different
occasions.
7. Demonstrate a formal setting to facilitate a
three-course meal for a family of four.

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Methods of delivery for the one assignment:
Role Play
PowerPoint presentation
Field Trip
Research and Reporting
Demonstration and Discussion
Cooperative Learning

16. References
Struther, D. (2007), Personal development for teachers, how do we
differentiate between the personal and professional elements of
teaching, Retrieved from http://www.merechats.co.uk.
What is Personal Development? Retrieved from Google,
http://www.careereducationweb.com/career-
evelopment/personal/overview.htm
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