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the significance of content and pedagogic knowledge
Continuing Professional Development enables learning to become conscious and proactive, rather than passive and reactive. It involves teachers documenting and keeping a record of their increasing skills, knowledge and experience they gain throughout their career. Educators need to be aware of effective teaching by applying effective teaching strategies, approaches, and continuous assessment. Good teaching is not just a matter of being efficient: developing competence, mastering technique, and possessing the right kind of knowledge is also highly important. Good teaching also involves emotional work. It is infused with pleasure, passion, creativity, challenge, and joy. The way we as educators behave as professionals is fundamental to the quality of classroom teaching and learning and is at the core of much research. Continuing career-long professional development is necessary for all educators to keep pace with change and to review and renew their own knowledge, skills, and visions for good teaching.