Developing our professional competence

We as teachers must have clear our goals, one of the most important is the communicative competence, but to achieve this goal specially, we have to know very well our teaching principles, knowledge and skills.
 I agree with the author that as time goes by we change our style of teaching and we become aware of how important is to be prepared to be "good and responsible" teachers; good in the sense of efectiveness making a constant  and critical analysis of our practice and considering the social context of our students.
That's why is so important to attend conferences and workshops to achieve a professional development and move from "What to teach" questions to "How and why? I'm doing such activities. Fortunately, now I'm  at the stage that  I question myself if I'm going where I should go as a professional and I have changed my view of How and Why teaching the way I'm doing it, this has helped me a lot to make good decisions about methods, contents and techniques.
Reading this article, I've realized that skills and knowledge must go together in order to be a professional teacher a committed one that will look for opportunities to learn and develop every day.