KGSNewspaper2013 volume1

Master of Teaching( MTeach)

CAMPUS & SCHOOL-BASED

Guidance to the

Professional Development Portfolio 1( PDP1) GEMS Leadership stand-alone module

Professional Development Portfolios

A professional development portfolio( PDP) is a working document containing evidence and critical reflection, which you can revise and update throughout your career. Creating and maintaining a PDP will engage you in a process that is now widely recognised as beneficial to ongoing career development. It will encourage you to reflect on knowledge, understanding, and skills learnt from past experiences and current activities, to identify needs, and to plan for future development.

Presenting a professional development portfolio for assessment provides a good opportunity for enhancing professional development in teaching and leadership. The thought that goes into the careful selection of material, drafting statements, sharing those statements with others, and researching areas related to practice will enable you to articulate your practice in a particular way. The context in which you undertake this task is an integral part of the process and will be made up of many elements, such as:

• your own skills and abilities;

• your developmental pathways and objectives / career aspirations as a leader;

• the classes you teach / leadership roles and responsibilities;

• teaching strategies / leadership styles;

• individual students and their particular needs and abilities / team members and their needs and abilities;

• the colleagues you work with inside and outside your institution; school; corporate office;

• the particular institutional context;

• the local setting;

• policy and curriculum agendas / school and departmental development plans and selfevaluation forms;

• pedagogical and adragogical developments;

• the findings of wider educational research.

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