Journal 12: Professional Responsibility: Professional Development

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Watermark Weekly Journal:

Using the Weekly Journal Template, that is linked below, copy the Thinking, Daily, and Weekly Writing Prompts as given here in the template to complete your weekly journal.

When your journal is completed you should upload and submit to your supervisor in the Watermark Student Teaching Program Submission Work system on that end of week Saturday as required. 

• Thinking Prompt: The best teachers are the best learners. What is professional development and why should we, as teachers continue to develop? Read the article and consider in what ways you have participated in professional development throughout this experience. This week attend at least one online professional development opportunity from https://community.connectedpe.com/search-courses/ or https://openphysed.teachable.com/. Choose a session that will challenge your growth as a teacher.
  
  
• Required Weekly Reading Article: Physical Literacy and Teacher Professional Development (see PDF below)
  
  
• Daily Prompt: Each day, describe at least one professional opportunity that you have received or sought out during your student teaching experience that contributed to your professional learning. Explain how the opportunity impacted you as a teacher. 
  
  
• Weekly Writing Prompt: Summarize the online professional development you attended this week and explain how it will help you as a teacher. Reflect on your own strengths and weaknesses as a beginning physical education teacher. What opportunities will you seek to continuously develop as a teacher?