St. Ethelreda hosts Teachers' Professional Development (TeachScape)

Professional development in general is a process whereby one continually progresses and refines ones skills, method, and approaches in ones given profesion for a positive outcome. Teachers' Professional Development therefore, is a process whereby teachers redefine and restructure their methods, skills, approaches and teaching strategies for effective impact on their students' performance and achievement.

On October 8, 2010, all roads led to St. Ethelreda School for this all important activity. Teachers and Principals from St. John De La Salle, St. Margaret of Scotland and St. Sabina, gathered at St. Ethelreda- the hosting school, for their October TeachScape with the theme 'Response to Intervention (RTI).

Response to Intervention, according to National Center on Response to Intervention," integrates assessment and intervention within a school-wide, multi-level prevention system to maximize student achievement and reduce behavior problems". The importance of Response to Intervention (RTI) includes;

a) School's identification of students at risk for poor learning outcomes

b) Monitoring of student's progress

c) Provision of evidence-based interventions

d) Adjustment of the intensity and nature of those interventions based on a student's responsiveness.

The program ended at about 3.00pm.

Thanks to the principal of St. Ethelreda who accepted hosting this month's TeachScape, to all the teachers that participated and all who contributed in making the whole exercise a success.