Professional Development Reviewer - The purpose of this phase is to analyze

your professional practice on the basis

of new knowledge.
Module 1: Professional Development & Its
Changing Your Practice
Importance
- The purpose of this phase is to
translate your new knowledge into
Professional Development
individual and collaborative plans and
- refers to continuing education and
actions for change.
career training after a person has
Gaining and Sharing Expertise
entered the workforce in order to help
- The purpose of this phase is to
them develop new skills, stay
continue to refine your professional
up-to-date on current trends, and
practice, learning with and from
advance their career.
colleagues while also sharing your
- can help today's engineers that are
practical wisdom with your peers.
looking to improve through
educational opportunities and
SMART
advanced degrees.
- Specific, Measurable, Achievable,
Relevant, and Time-Bound
Areas of Professional Development
- Continuing Education
Module 2: Continuing Education
- Participation in Professional
Organizations
Continuing Education
- Research
- a way of enhancing and broadening
- Improve job performance
skills and knowledge from the time of
- Increased duties and responsibilities
graduation or licensure/certification
- Skill Based Training
- it is an education to develop new and
- Job Assignments
relevant knowledge

Phases of Professional Development

Importance of Continuing Education
- Improve quality of life for all
Building a Knowledge Base
individuals
- The purpose of this phase is to acquire
- Success of business, government, and
new knowledge and information and
employers
to build a conceptual understanding of
- Improvement of community
it
- Attaining the Mission and Vision of
Observing Models and Class
institution that offers continuing
- The purpose of this phase is to
education program
develop a practical understanding of
the activity.
Teacher and participant
Reflecting on Your Practice
 - Continuing education is more - Personal Development: a perfect way
successful when taken voluntarily for you to follow a personal interest.
instead of mandated to unwilling - Improve Image: can also how people
leaner/student around you perceived you. It can
enhance your self-image and have
Anyone can learn positive effect in your life
- the concept of lifelong learning is that
anyone can learn, and that learning For Employers
should continue throughout one's - Highly Skills Workforce: brings new
lifetime ideas and skills to the job by skilled
employees.
Anyone can teach - Upgrading of technology and skills:
- Learners can teach to meet the need prepare company for rapidly changing
of limited numbers of topic and market and improvements in
specialties that adults want to learn technology
- Retention of happy employees: allows
History of Continuing Education employers who invest in the skills
- Benjamin Franklin sometimes referred development of their employee have
as the father of Adult education better chance to retain their staff as
- Before 1970, Continuing Education is well as improve moral and job
called Adult Education satisfaction.
- 1970: Continuing Education become - Impact on Profits: contributes to the
popular term replacing Adult productivity of loyal and happy
Education employee whose skills development
- 1970 up to present, undergraduate are sponsored by the company.
degrees/college are most likely to - Identify future leaders: help employers
take Continuing Education to select perfect future leader roles
and position among their employees.
Benefits of Continuing Education
Professional development
For Employees - focuses on individual/employee’s
- Higher Salary: improves your chances learning new skills and knowledge to
of promotion and a higher salary become successful in their chosen
- Improve Marketability: has a direct field.
effect on one’s marketability in the job
market due to his upgraded skills. Continuing Education
- Learn new skills: can help you obtain - one type of Professional Development
the required skills and knowledge in which an individual/employee
when facing any job or career typically with undergraduate
transition. academic
 degree/license/certification pursues
additional learnings from Higher Importance of Continuing Professional
Education Institution, Academy, and Development
other accredited agency. - ASEAN Mutual Recognition
Arrangements (MRA) and other
Values of Continuing Education in International Agreements
Engineering Profession - National and international alignment
of competencies and qualifications
License Renewal - Validation, accreditation, and
- Republic Act No. 10912 known as recognition of learning outcomes
“Continuing Professional Development - Maintenance of core competencies
(CPD) Act of 2016”: Is an act which and development of new
require CPD as the mandatory competencies
requirement for the renewal of - Contribution to general welfare,
Professional Identification Card economic growth, and development of
Certification Advancement the nation
- allows you to go into higher level of
certification that allows you to acquire Nature of CPD Programs
new learnings and skills in the fast - Formal learning: arrangements that
pace changing technology. take place in recognized educational
Job Satisfaction and training institutions, and which
- allows you to learn new materials lead to granting diplomas and
therefore create mental stimulation qualifications
that leads to job satisfaction. - Nonformal learning: learning in
Technical Competence addition to formal learning, which may
- allows you to be abreast in changing be structured and made more flexible
engineering technology according to arrangements
Career Change - Informal learning: learning in daily life
- attending seminars/classes may not which can contribute to a qualification
directly affect your job but it may - Self-directed learning: learning
open your eyes to a new direction to activities (i.e. online training,
take your career. seminars, non-degree courses,
company-sponsored training
Factors to Consider in Continuing programs) without CPD accreditation
Education but may be applied for CPD units
- Time - Online activities: structured or
- Money unstructured learning initiatives,
which make use web-based ICT
Module 3: Continuing Professional solutions
Development
 - Professional work experience:
participation while working in a
specific field

PRC and Professional Regulatory Boards

- Organize CPD Councils and
promulgate operational guidelines
operation
- Review existing and new CPD
Programs
- Promulgate guidelines and procedures Professional Track (valid 3 years prior to
for the implementation of CPD renewal)
Programs
- Coordinate with academe,
government agencies, and other
stakeholders in the implementation of
the CPD Programs
- Coordinate with government agencies
Academic Track (valid 5 years from
in the grant and transfer of credit
conferment)
units earned

CPD Council
- Ensure adequate and appropriate CPD
Programs
- Act on applications for accreditation
of CPD Providers and Programs
- Evaluate implementation of CPD
Programs
- Assess and/or upgrade criteria for Self-Directed (valid 3 years prior to renewal)
CPD Provider accreditation
- Develop mechanisms for validation,
accreditation, and recognition of
different learning activities
- Conduct international alignment of
CPD Programs
- Issue operational guidelines

CPD UNITS
 complete the learning process and
demonstrate their expertise and
knowledge by passing the exams. In a
designation- granting Professional
Organization, the members have to
renew their certificates every few
years.
Certifying bodies
- These are types of Professional
Organizations that issue certifying
credentials to its members when they
Module 4: Participation in Professional can meet the set requirements, for
Organization instance, particular professional
experience or education. The primary
Professional Organization purpose of a certifying body is to issue
- association that is formed to further certifications and keep a track
the interests of people engaged in a Professional regulatory bodies
specific profession, to advance a - These types of Professional
particular profession and serve the Organizations follow the federal and
public good state guidelines to serve the public
- association made up of members who and maintain expectations of the
are part of the same industry or industry. They establish licensing and
career field certification requirements and can
exclude members who do not follow
Types of Professional Organization the set procedure

Member-benefit professional associations Reasons to Join

- These organizations provide its - Job opportunities
members numerous resources like - Networking Opportunities
resume building, networking and peer - Access to continuing education,
support to advance their careers. They seminars, and lectures
focus on making sure that their - Staying up-to-date on industry news
members can take advantage of and trends
available resources through - Helping you stand out to potential
conferences, seminars, and journals. employers
Designation-granting associations - Mentorship / Leadership
- These types of Professional - Support Systems
Organizations provide a certification
to its members to show that they are Local Professional Organizations
adept in this field. The certificate is
naturally issued when the members
 - Philippine Technological Council (PTC) Convention
- Philippine Society of Mechanical - A gathering of individuals who meet at
Engineers (PSME) an arranged place and a time to
- Institute of Computer Engineers of the discuss some common interest or
Philippines (ICpEP) make a decision as a group.
- Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers - Conventions are not generally
(PICE) organized by an individual, but an
- Institute of Electronics Engineers of the organization, club or a union. In a
Philippines (IECEP) convention, all the attendees are
- Institute of Integrated Electrical encouraged to speak and share their
Engineers of the Philippines (IIEE) thoughts; discuss and engage are the
key components of a convention
International Professional Organizations
Advantages of Joining
ASEAN Federation of Engineering - Get feedback on an early version of
Organizations (AFEO) your latest work
- To promote goodwill and mutual - Getting to know other people in your
understanding field
- To establish and develop a ASEAN - Learning about the latest research
baseline standard for the engineering - Improving presentation and
profession with the objective of communication skills
facilitating the mobility of the - Visiting new places
engineers within the ASEAN - Meet academic and research experts
countries. - Engage in high-level debates to refine
World Federation of Engineering ideas
Organizations (WFEO) - Updating the CV
- the international organization for the
engineering profession Module 5: Research in Different Professions

Conference Research is a process of systematic inquiry

- A meeting that is generally designed that:
for discussion, problem solving, - Entails collection of data
fact-finding and consultation. - Documentation of critical information
- Conference tend to have specific - Analysis and interpretation of data
objectives and last for several days.
- As the word conference suggests, it is Basic scientific research
a platform for people to confer about - concerned with the discovery of new
a topic. phenomena and their integrations into
coherent conceptual models of major
physical or biological systems
 researchers but also their mentors,
Basic research in engineering colleagues and the university.
- by definition concerned with the Communication
discovery and systematic conceptual - set of skills necessary to develop and
structuring of knowledge maintain an effective relationship
between the researcher and mentor.
Research is conducted to Organization
- Evaluate the validity of a hypothesis or - well-honed organizational skills
an interpretive framework. facilitate effective research and good
- To assemble a body of substantive science.
knowledge and findings for sharing Persistence
them in appropriate manners. - is the drive to never give up. But it is
- To help generate questions for further important to realize that persistence
inquiries also involves failure. However, failure
is a normal part of progress, and we
Importance of Research often learn more from our mistakes
- Tool for building knowledge and than our success
facilitating learning
- Promotes love and confidence in Types of Research
reading, writing, analyzing and sharing
valuable information Quantitative Research
- Find, gauge, and seize opportunities - refers to the numbers where data is
- Understand issues and increase public collected based on numbers. Graphs
awareness help to quantify the results.
- Disprove lies and support truths Qualitative Research
- Provides nourishment and exercise for - refers to non-numerical elements in
the mind the research. When the information or
data cannot be grasped in terms of
Skills needed as a researcher numbers, qualitative research comes
for the rescue.
Creativity Descriptive Research
- the ability to transcend mainstream - Facts are considered in descriptive
ideas, and creativity all but requires methods. These help to determine and
originality. This is an essential trait to explain with examples, the facts and
develop and utilize within their they are not rejected
research experience. Analytical Research
Judgment - uses the facts that have been
- failure to exercise good ethical confirmed already to form the basis
judgements can seriously jeopardize for the research and critical evaluation
the careers and integrity of not only of the material.
Applied Research
- is action research where only one Module 6: Skill-based training
domain is considered and mostly facts
are generalized. Training
Fundamental Research - is the process of acquiring specific
- is the basic of pure research done to skills to perform a job better.
find out an element or a theory has - concerned with those activities which
never been in the world yet. are designed to improve human
Exploratory Research performance on the job that
- based on the theories and their employees are at present doing or are
explanation and it does not provide being hired to do.
any conclusion for the research topic.
Conclusive Research Education
- aims at providing an answer to the - concerned with increasing general
research topic and has a proper knowledge and understanding of the
design in the methodology. The total environment. Education is the
results will be generic and help the development of the human mind, and
outside world. it increases the powers of observation,
Surveys analysis, integration, understanding,
- not least considered but play a main decision making, and adjustment to
role in the research methodology. It is new situations.
done at a low cost and can be done
faster than any other method. Training Approach
Case studies
- different cases are considered and the Traditional Training Approach
proper one for the research is - the training staff designs the
selected. Case studies help to form an objectives, contents, teaching
idea of the research and helps in the techniques, assignments, lesson plans,
foundation of the research. motivation, tests, and evaluation. The
focus in this model is intervention by
Basics Steps in Research the training staff.
1. Identify and develop your topic Experiential Training Approach
2. Do a preliminary search for - the trainer incorporates experiences
information where in the learner becomes active
3. Locate materials and influences the training process.
4. Evaluate your sources Experiential training emphasizes real
5. Make notes or simulated situations in which the
6. Write your paper trainees will eventually operate.
7. Cite your sources properly Performance-Based Approach
8. Proofread
 - is mostly task or skill centred and is - Expressed in nouns
also applicable to nonformal
educational organizations such as Hard skills
extension. - job-specific abilities or knowledge
Preservice Training learned through education, hands-on
- is a process through which individuals experience, or training
are made ready to enter a certain kind
of professional job such as agriculture, Soft skills
medicine, or engineering - in the workplace refer to transferable
Inservice Training and professional skills
- is a process of staff development for
the purpose of improving the Popular Soft and Hard Skills
performance of an employee holding a
position with assigned job Active Listening Skills
responsibilities. - is the ability to focus completely on a
speaker, understand their message,
Skill comprehend the information and
- is an ability to perform an activity in a respond thoughtfully.
competent manner. Communication Skills
- are the abilities you use when giving
Classification of Skills and receiving different kinds of
information.
Transferable/Functional Computer Skills
- Actions taken to perform a task, - skills involve the ability to learn and
transferable to different work operate various technology.
functions and industries Customer Service Skills
- Based on ability and aptitude - are traits and practices that help you
- Expressed in verbs address customer needs to create a
Personal Traits/Attitudes positive experience
- Traits or personality characteristics Interpersonal skills
that contribute to performing work. - are traits you rely on when you
- Developed in childhood and through interact and communicate with others
life experience Leadership Skills
- Expressed in adjectives - are skills you use when organizing
Knowledge-based other people to reach a shared goal.
- Knowledge of specific subjects, Managerial skills
procedures, and information - are qualities that help you govern both
necessary to perform particular tasks tasks and people.
- Acquired through education, training, Problem-solving skills
and on-the-job experience
 - are qualities that help you determine
the source of a problem and quickly
find an effective solution.
Time management skills
- allow you to complete tasks and
projects before deadlines while also
maintaining work-life balance

Skill-Based Training
- a skills development program is a
worthwhile investment that leads to
increased productivity

Importance of Skill-based training

- Technology is rapidly changing
- Skills training also is important
because it enhances overall job
satisfaction

Value of Skill-based training

- One Size Doesn’t Fit All
- Becoming Prepared for the Workplace

Advantages of Skill-based training

- Increase Employment Opportunities
- Increased Career Development
Opportunities
- Personal Growth
- Increase your knowledge and
understanding of your local industry