Professional Development does not always mean attending standardized and official TPD hosted by government, or teacher training institutions etc. It does not also mean a site-based one that includes many teachers and scheduled rigorously to meet the expectation of the teachers on site.Yet, it can mean just a self-directed teacher profesional development (TPD)(Gaible & Burns, 2005), initiated and conducted by the teacher themselves. The last type of TPD probably the most feasible one for us. since it requires only our will and itention to be better teacher. Through the use of technology self-directed TPD nowadays is just a click away. But how we can start our TPD? and what tools available on the Internet that assit self-directed TPD?
Well, we can use several tools such as social media, email, open online course, and online forum (message broad). Social media, can be one of the easiest tools that we can use in terms of having online discussion or connect with people around the world to get brand new ideas. Here’s the example of an online discussion about TEFL in a facebook’s group
