Concept of Professional Development

We need to look in detail at the words ‘’education, training, development’’, which are also mixed together as English words. ‘’Education’’, education-training, school, mektep, collection comes to mind. Although education; the individual starts from the moment of birth and continues throughout the life with the interaction of family, school and environment, it is taken as formal education that takes place in the planned programmed form and determined periods in the schools. For the word ‘’Training’, it is used; instruction, exercise, training, training, execution, innovation and experiences teaching-learning-application words. ‘’Development’’ means development, progress. The development covers formal and informal training, studies, learned innovations, experiences and a wide range of activities. It is used in a wider scope than learning in general terms. Because of this broad meaning, the word development is used.