What PD happens in your workplace?
According to Fullan, professional development refers to activities to enhance professional career growth. In my organization, employees are encouraged to take part in the continuing personal/professional development scheme. The school provides financial sponsorship to the staff who attendance the courses, workshops, training and the like which are related to our work.
Besides, in order to encourage the staff to continuous learning and development, school offers a 50% course fee discount for some selected programmes.
For continuous evaluate our performance, there is a performance management scheme every year. Programme manager will meet with the staff to evaluate his/her performance in the past year. In the meeting, programme manager will ask the difficulties the staff faces in their work and will report to the schools. Also, manager will suggest some training courses for the staff to join.
Apart from this, to evaluate the quality of our lecturers, students have to fill in a learning experience survey at the end of the last lecture. There is a quality assurance team to in charge the collected survey. After gathering the results, a report will send to the programme team. If the marks are below the standard, the lecturer has to meet with the programme manager to explain the reason why receiving the low marks. In many cases, the lecturer will be stopped to teach the programme.
Your workplace has a well planned development scheme. It includes financial support and evaluation.
ReplyDeleteUnlike my workplace, the director only encourage staff and without any support.
Thanks for your sharing! I think that training courses are good for staffs learning. They can learn more extra knowledge form the course which can beneficial for their work. I really appreciate that your workplace can provide training courses to staffs. In fact, the working hour in Hong Kong is long and it would reduce the motivation of staffs to learn because they want to take rest after work rather than study. Therefore, i think if employers want staffs to learn and improve their work from learning in training courses, it is important that they don't give too much workload to their staffs and allow them to have enough time for learning.
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