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Reply to forum 1. Professional Development 1Chong Siew PynProfessional Development will provide a unique opportunity for teachers to delve deeply into their subject matter. Working together, teachers can design new planning materials, teaching methods, resource materials and assessment tools.

2. Re: Professional Development Reply to Chong Siew Pyn

Learningis commonly defined as a process that brings together cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences and experiences for acquiring, enhancing, or making changes in one's knowledge, skills, values, and world views. Relationships between informal, non-formal and formal learning can only be understood within particular contexts. They conclude that it is often more helpful to examine dimensions of formality and informality, and ways in which they inter-relate with each other; and that attention should be paid to the wider historical, social, political and economic contexts of learning, and to the theoretical view of learning that is held by the writer.

3. Professional Development 1Marina bt Basri

Peer mentoring and peer coaching are two techniques that are useful for teachers who have not spent much time on the other side of the desk. But these techniques can also motivate experienced teachers to reflect on and refine their own teaching strategies and practices. Both methods should be seen as collaborative endeavors that improve a particular aspect of teaching. They also can be used to introduce a new policy or procedure and to explain how to implement it within a given classroom context.

4. Professional Development 1Posted by Rozaidah bt Abdul RahmanReply to Marina bt Basri

Professional Development is important as time changes. Teachers need to change especially in this 21st century education using the new teaching strategies. Teachers also need to prepare today s children for tomorrow world so that our students can meet the challenges of the modern age.