CHAPTER 17

Professional Growth of the Teacher

PRINCIPLE AND PROCEDURES FOR

DE VEL OPING A N IN-SE RVIC E
E D U C AT I O N P R O G R A M
The school administrator has a responsibility to
promote his own in-service education. As an
educational leader, he must keep abreast of the
latest in educational development as well as of
trends in pedagogical theory and practice.

It is also important that he read extensively on

topics that will broaden his cultural horizon. This can
be do by having a program of in-service education.

Administration should be responsible and

accountable if it should work for the improvement of
education which it is supposed to perpetuate.

PRINCIPLES AND THE

CORRESPONDING PROCEDURES
T H E Y I N V O LV E :
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8.

Create an atmosphere for working

Help others see problems
Help others get started
Help others make good decision
Help others put plans into action
Help others evaluate programs
Help groups improve their competence
Share responsibilities of leadership

A N A LY Z I N G T E A C H I N G B E H AV I O R :
I M P L I C AT I O N F O R I N - S E RV I C E
E D U C AT I O N A N D S TA F F D E V E L O P M E N T
Our knowledge of the fact of teaching is meager.
The act of teaching has received less attention
than its central role in pedagogy would seem to
require.

WHY IS OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ACT

OF T E AC H I NG M E AG E R AND,
T H E R E F O R E I N A D E Q UAT E ?
There is too much emphasis on conditional
admonitions and too little attention given to an
analysis of the behavior associated with these
intentions. In other words, except for the most gifted
teachers, there is a gap between the teachers fairly
good intentions and the teaching behavior which
occurs in the classroom.

The analysis of teaching behavior can be done

through interaction analysis.
It is a system for observing and coding the verbal
interchange between a teacher and his pupil.

A teacher can never truly teach unless

he is still learning himself. A lamp can
never light another lamp unless it
continues to bum its own flame.
-R.N. Tagore.