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Why Teacher Career Development is Important ? In have decided to work on this topic because this is one of the most significant issue a teacher needs to work on. As teachers, we are the ones who can inspire the people and make an impact on the humanity. Teaching language is the tool that connects people and helps them to understand each other. There are thousands of different language and hundreds of different nationalities in the world and common language is the brigde that can provide communication for the humanity. Learning language is one of the most hard work required processes, so to find the most suitable way to be effective in the classroom is important. Just like different nationalities and landguages, there are also students with different cognitive development and interests in the same classroom. Teaching must be like a journey that keeps them learn something new on their own. Thus, teachers should be like mentors in the classroom rather than implementing teacher centered lessons. Due to this fact teachers' career development is essential to keep up with the changes and updates around them. In this era, education has been evolved into 4C ( communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking ) principles. So, the teachers should pay attention on their career developments to be able to grow their students eligible enough for globally neccesary criterias. We are not only their mentors in the classroom, but also their role models, so we must be good researchers in front of them so that they can be inspired in the same way. We cannot expect our students to obtain 4C principles unless we implement them in our lessons. Second fact that requires career development is, students are changing as well as the world is changing, their interests are getting different day by day. We need to learn how to keep up with this issue as well. Students are more likely to be engaged with active learning. The teachers should be able to find solutions in case of any distraction during the course. The most effective way to overcome it is the fact that we need to know what topics are popular, what keeps them motivated, how we can create a product which is related to the topic in the lesson. Third important fact is, growth cannot happen in comfort zone. From time to time theachers should change their age groups to gain experience in different categories so that they can combine their experiences in their career. Sometimes working abroad helps a teacher to observe the students from different cultures, different languages and countries. That attempt provides them unique opportunity to bring what is developed in these places to their learning environment. Sometimes teaching online can give that chance, sometimes moving into another country, sometimes working with different age group. As teachers we are the ones who can grow the individuals who can make a positive or negative feedback on humanity. It is our super power that can make an impact. Due to all these facts, teachers always look for developments and changes to benefit from them. We should always have a growth mindset to let the others have that mindset too.
