Professional Development of Teachers

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This paper explains that professional development is an opportunity for existing teachers already in schools to learn new teaching methods thus making them and their programs more effective. The author points out that utilizing outdated or ineffective teaching techniques or an inadequate knowledge of basic technological advances is completely unacceptable in the realm of teaching mathematics because a good knowledge of mathematics is important to all aspects of students' lives. The paper describes two models of professional development programs: (1) CATIE Mentoring Program, which is an extremely successful process for instituting technology into the realm of mathematics teaching and (2) School-within-a-School Model, developed in Canada, which is a project-based learning process strongly supported by the entire school system.

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Introduction
Importance
Good Teachers
Models of Professional Development
Model 1
Model 2
Conclusion

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"The program also incorporates parents who pay for students' laptop computers and a local university as a pre-service for the teachers. The program consists of bi-monthly half-day meetings conducted within the participating schools and there they review issues, concerns and topics such as cooperative learning, curriculum integration. The program also has a very effective community model that helps teachers utilize more social and culturally aware notions in the classroom. This helps the teachers teach at a level that is adequate for the various learning levels with in the classrooms."

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