Professional development

External information sources industry groups, professional associations, technical journals, print and broadcast media, professional development coursework, etc. 

Brock, H. R. Jennings, D. R. and Feiten, J. B. (1996). Petroleum Accounting Principles, Procedures and Issues, 4tli ed. Demon, TX Price Waterhouse Coopers, Professional Development Institute. 

Although not a part of tiie professional development of this textbook, I wish to express my love and gratitude to those who made my contribution to this book possible, my family. Their unwavering support and encouragement saw me through many difficult days, nights, and weekends of manuscript preparation. 

Learning is important in all aspects of our lives for example, it can be vital for our healthy social, emotional and indeed physical development Within the context of professional development, there are a number of compelling reasons for continued emphasis on learning ... 

The support and help of a senior colleague who takes an interest in the personal and professional development of the mentee. 

Help with maintaining a clear focus on the mentee s development in relation to specific knowledge and skills, and in the broader sense of professional development. 

Once again, in addition to having to possess the mentor characteristics detailed in Chapter 5, the prerequisite of the mentor in a professional development scheme is, of course, that he or she must possess in-depth knowledge about the particular type of competency that is to be developed. 

What are the benefits of professional development mentoring The main and most obvious benefit is the mentees acquisition of an important type of competency, intended to enhance business performance. Furthermore, although mentoring might not be the only developmental tool employed in this type of scheme, receiving one-to-one attention is likely to enable... 

A professional development mentoring program, by Tony Hardwick of the Institution of Electrical Engineers... 

Additionally, the lEE professional development function is exploring the possibility for Chartered Engineers in the regions to take on mentees who lack company support. There are still some reservations about ethical issues in these relationships - for example, mentors who might work for competitors of the mentee s company. This new lEE Mentoring Network will offer candidates an opportunity to find a trained mentor who is outside their immediate work place. The network is supported by the lEE Professional Development Section -principally Tony Johns (lEE Mentoring Executive Officer). A retired Chartered Engineer with many years experience as a traditional lEE mentor, Johns role is to ... 

What are your views regarding your own continued professional development How do you practise it ... 

Such collaborations as represented in the project team have been described by Watts (1985) as important for the snccess of action research. He pointed ont that it is important for teachers to help each other by working collaboratively and that working with external colleagues supports them in their professional development. Our collaborative action research experience snpport these statements, namely it seems that the success of the investigation is to a great proportion due to the effective collaboration between the involved partners (the specific roles of partners are described earlier). 

Although there are major differences between national educational systems, some broad guidelines for successful science teacher professional development, culled from a review of recent curriculum development projects (Black Atkin, 1996, pp. 146-147 VanDen Akker, 1998, pp. 443 44) can be applied to a revised curricular provision in respect of the triplet relationship. The intention must be that the perception of new curricular provision by all teachers becomes congment with the intentions, content, and processes, of the formal curriculum. The guidelines suggest that... 

During and after programmes of professional development and curriculum evolution, any innovatory curriculum in the triplet relationship will be put into operation in classrooms. As the pmpose of teaching is to promote learning, what should be done in classrooms to maximise the desired learning Black Atkin (1996) have summarised the traditional assumptions about learning that have proved so unsatisfactory in the past. These are that... 

TeacherNet is the government site for teachers. Use this site to access resources, training, professional development and support. 

The book explains how to solve coupled systems of ordinary differential equations of the kind that commonly arise in the quantitative description of the evolution of environmental properties. All of the computations that I shall describe can be performed on a personal computer, and all of the programs can be written in such familiar languages as BASIC, PASCAL, or FORTRAN. My goal is to teach the methods of computational simulation of environmental change, and so I do not favor the use of professionally developed black-box programs. 

However, many recent instruments are still not considered satisfactory, since professional developers in the field of high-throughput screening (HTS) want to use the full performance of the latest generation of robots and computers for automation. This results in new instrumental developments, like the possibility of reading not only 96, but 384 or even 1536 wells plates as well as DNA chips, very rapidly (in a minute or so) and repeatedly without any mechanical failures. Hence, in the eyes of company scientists developing new assays, many present-day instruments still correspond to an intermediate stage of development. For research laboratory scientists, on the other hand, the actual equipment offers excellent performance. 

Engineers shall continue their professional development throughout their careers and shall provide opportunities for the professional development of those engineers under their supervision. 

EBM is not cook-book medicine, it is not a way to cut costs in the short perspective, and it is not restricted to randomised trials and meta-analyses. Instead it focuses on a systematic approach to improve an individual patients care, for professional development and life long learning. 

Member Services Benefits Other ASME Programs Payment Inquiries Professional Development Short Courses Publications... 

The motivating force for the professional development and practice of effective and efficient remediation of subsurface materials has been pubhc opinion, which... 

Both sets of guidelines attempt to cover most of the types of problems that might arise in the employee-employer relationship and to set forth desirable conditions for employment. The scope of the ACS document can be comprehended by noting the headings in the PEG, which are Terms of Employment, Employment Environment, Professional Development, Termination Conditions, and Investigation of Unprofessional Conduct. Copies of PEG may be obtained from the ACS (3) and the GPEES from the EJC (4). 

Shaping a personal way of assessing one s knowledge is an important commitment to continuous professional development and demonstration of personal competence. Self-assessment that is taken seriously has the capacity to identify areas where further sharpening is needed. It also provides the capacity to validate what one knows related to the competence requirements of one s practice. Such assessment is not a comparison of what one knows compared with others but rather, focuses on the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are relevant to an individual s practice. 

MCQs in Pharmacy Practice is an important effort to engage individual pharmacists in such self-assessment. The authors of this text have identified a way by which individual pharmacists, who are committed to their own continuing professional development, can apply a systematic way of involving themselves in self assessment. 

---