PERSONAL GOAL FOR PROFESSIONAL GROWTH

MY FIRST REFLECTION (What I have learned about my status of professional growth) 

It is possible for one to spend a good part of one's life working but never once enjoying what one does for a living. One may be in it only for money but lose out on other benefits. There are many reasons for this. Some of them could be: 

• One doesn't take time to collaborate or share one's experience with someone else. 
• One doesn't use his or her time at work to help someone  else improve his or her skills. 
• One chooses to compete and appear better trained and a better performer to one's superiors in order to gain cheap popularity and favor. 
• One decides to take the social aspect out of one's work. 
• One doesn't reflect on what one does, how he or she does it or doesn't do it, and the legacy one lives behind. 

But why would one live and work like that? Because, he/she most probably doesn't know any better. That best describes my professional development journey. 

In this course, I have learnt that, when we come together, many things happen - we learn a lot, we work more, we work better and appreciate ourselves and others much more because we never really see our weaknesses but each one's strength. We can enjoy what we do when we do it with and for others. Indeed the rewards of learning together as we work and working together as we learn are better than pay cheques we receive at the end of a miserable 30 days in a hostile professional cage.

I have also learnt that tools only increase the collaboration and fun, but they are not an end in themselves. My approach to and competence in teaching was within the "technology literacy" level of human capacity development. I am determined to increase it to the "knowledge creation" level of human capacity development. 

THE PERSONAL GOAL FOR MY PROFESSIONAL GROWTH - Is to be a role model in using technology to enhance teaching and manage learning by developing teaching-learning platforms and sites for accumulating and sharing academic and professional development resources and ideas with my students and fellow teachers. 

Thank You. Be blessed. 

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