PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS DEVELOPMENT.Desarrollo profesional docente

COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENTSECOND CLASS

Video: Why professional development…? http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH6BpP21Cuc

REASONS FOR PURSUING PD.1. To acquire new knowledge and skills2. Change (we need to be ready to cope with new changes – governmental regulations or policies)3. Increase in income or prestige4. Empowerment (working out our won way forward, based on our own understanding – Edge, 1992--)

What is teachers development?

What is teacher Development? Whole class discussion (15 mins)

READING

What can teachers do to aid their professional

development? Complete the web by filling in the spaces with strategies you could use for your professional development. Work in pairs

PD

Professional

development

READING PROFESSIONAL

JOURNALS

http://

sapp.uv.mx/univirtual/cursos/LEI/Finding%20Out%20about%20the%20Language%20Classroom/docs/unit12.pdf

Relating PD AND AR

Teacher´s burnout

Talk to your partner and discuss what do you think is to be burnout?

When could this happen? Now, discuss the article about burn out.

“Talking about frustration” (pages 8-10) Were your ideas right? The Maslach Burnout Inventory uses a three

dimensional description of exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy.

Have you ever felt burnout?

Concept from the early 70´s Final flickering flame, of a charred empty shell, of

dying embers and cold, gray ashes Emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and

reduce personal accomplishment that can occur among individuals who do “people work”

A function of the many stress felt by individuals in both their social life and their work experience.

Powerlessness Lack of enthusiasm to prepare lessons/lack of

interest in the subject Loss of energy, loss of memory

Important concepts and ideas about

burnout.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9YUWdFmKEY Avoiding Teacher burnout1 Avoid Teacher burnout2 Some interviews SECOND ASSIGNMENT:1) PREPARE AT LEAST FIVE

QUESTIONS RELATED TO BURNOUT, THEN INTERVIEW A TEACHER, ASK HIM/HER YOUR QUESTIONS (RECORD THEM OR DO IT ON LINE)

HAND IN THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (INTERVIEW) AND WRITE A REFLECTION OF THE TEACHER´S ANSWERS (MINIMUM 3 LINES, 8 LINES MAXIMUM)

BurnoutVIDEOS

Keeping a teaching dairy can be the first step to

reflect about your daily practice. Can be a form of data collection and data analysis In it, we can identify our effective and ineffective

techniques; we can see the patterns we follow in our teaching.

“Through these you will find your own questions and follow through in your own ways. It is quite euphoric, really, to see yourself revealed on paper” (Paley, 1997)

DairyImportant points from the reading

Journal writing is viewed “as an opportunity for teachers to use the process of writing to describe and explore their own teaching practices” (Ho and Richards, 1993).

Definition: A dairy study in second language learning, acquisition,

or teaching is an account of second language experience as recorded in a first person journal…The diarist studies his own teaching or learning. Thus he can report on affective factors, language learning strategies, and his own perceptions – facets of the language learning experience which are normally hidden or largely inaccessible to an external observer.

Journals for professional development

Introspective analysis/direct analysis Non-introspective analysis/indirect analysis/secondary

analysis Teachers‘ Autobiographies In the reading (page 54), read about the timeline to see how your experiences as language learner have influenced you or will influence you as a language teacher. Please, draw your timeline as the basis. Follow the points and question on that page. Then in groups of three discuss the last question: What has your own history as a language learner led you to believe about language teaching.Then, do activity 4.3

Types

Now, read your dairy. Select (highlight) the

recurrent problems you notice in your daily teaching

What is/are the main problem(s)? Discuss them with your group of three, ask

them if they know bibliography, or certain strategies you can follow to improve your teaching.

Do you know how to obtain bibliography related to the topic you found out is affecting your activity?

Jastor, google scholar, google books, EBSCO

Your diary

THE CARTON EGG EFFECT

Dan Lortie has called teaching “the egg carton profession” (1975), because once we close the doors to our clssrooms, we are relatively isolated from our peers.

We are the only one who knows what happens in the classroom

We need to take decisions while the class is in progress.

Our students see us as a model We can motivate students or demotivate

them.

The carton egg effect

Taking part in professional development opportunities can help us overcome this sense of isolation.

Participate in conferences, workshops, teacher research teams, etc.

You can be in touch with positive people (this can help you if your colleagues at work are not so enthusiastic about the profession)

Build a network Reading material for the profession “Being able to talk confidently with administrators,

parents, students and other teachers about what we do and why we do it is an extraordinarily important

part of being competent teachers and gaining respect as professionals” (10)

How to avoid the effect?

Discuss with a partner: Do people take seriously your profession? Why? Why is language teaching a profession? List some ideas

Are you a professional? Why do you consider yourself as that?

Read pages from 12-17 Definition ofProfession “is a type of job that requires advanced education and training” Professionalism: “ the qualities of competence and integrity demonstrated by the best people in the field”

Is language teaching a Profession?

The existence of advanced education and training The establishment of standards of practice and

certification An agreed upon theoretical and empirical base The work of people within the field who act as

advocates for the profession. According to David Nunan: “some people in our

profession do teach languages with no formal preparation … in fact, at some language schools in different parts of the world, the only employment criterion is fluency in the target language” (13)

Criteria

Declarative knowledge: All the things we know

and can articulate about language. Procedural knowledge: Skills that are unique

to language teaching: How do we manage to teach a class.

eg. How to manage group work, how to improve motivation, how to deal with discipline).

Types of knowledge

Larsen-Freeman:“ I cannot make an informed choice unless I am aware that one exists. Awareness requires that I give attention to some aspects of my behavior or the situation I find myself in. Once I give that aspect my attention, I must also view it with detachment, with objectivity, for only then will I become aware of alternative ways of behaving, or alternative ways of viewing the situation, and only then will I have a choice to make. (1989,36)

Self AwarenessSelf Observation

Known to self Unknown to self

Known to Others Open self Blind Self

Unknown to Others Secret Self Hidden Self

Self-Awareness

THE JOHARI WINDOW