Developing education...a forward-looking vision...models for professional development for environments

Professional development and growth for the teacher goes beyond the concept of training to practicing a number of diverse activities, and requires expanding the concept of professional development for the teacher, stimulating his personal responsibility, and then determining the aspects of accountability and motivation at the same time. This study is based on the fact that the concept of professional development is characterized by its comprehensiveness, depth, and multi-dimensionality and levels. Professional development means "e;processes and activities designed to develop teachers' knowledge, skills, and attitudes that lead to improving student learning."e;In terms of axis and goal, professional development is an organized process centered on the individual as a whole, aiming to bring about specific behavioral and mental changes to meet specific current or future needs required by the individual, the work he performs, the institution in which he works, and society as a whole. It is also a process directed to improving the educational institution by stimulating the desire and building the teacher's capacity, by employing all the educational experiences that teachers have in order to bring about a change in behavior that leads to achieving the institution's goals. It is an organized, purposeful process and a golden opportunity provided to teachers, to move them forward. From their current level to the best level, provided that the teacher has the ability and desire. This is what the reader will notice in the pages and chapters of the book in a procedural and explanatory manner.