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The Bell Educational Trust:Bilgi Conference 2010
Reflecting on Reflection Let’s talk about it
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
My professional history
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Reflecting on Reflection Let’s talk about it
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Continuous Professional Development
• Initial qualifications
• Further development activities
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Your professional development
• Talk to the person next to you for 2 or 3 minutes
– Describe a development activity you have taken part in which has influenced your teaching practice
– How did it change it?
– Why did it change it?
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Transmission Models
• The Training Model
• The Award-Bearing Model
• The Deficit Model
• The Cascade Model
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Features
• Delivered by an expert• Supports a skills-based view of
teaching• Standard-based• Participants are often passive• Possibly quality assurance rather
than developmental
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Transitional Models
• Work-based, Standards Model
• The Coaching \ Mentoring Model
• The Community of Practice Model
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Features
• Context specific
• Interpersonal relationships
• Supportive professional dialogues
• Supporting intellectual development
• Mutual accountability
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Transformative Models
• The Action Research Model
• The Transformative Model
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Features
• Teacher active
• Allow teachers to ask critical questions
• Increases transformative practice
• Increases professional autonomy
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Reflection
• It’s hard
• It’s a skill
• It’s isolating
• It’s admitting weaknesses
• I don’t have any ideas
• I don’t like it
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
• ‘Sum total of individual knowledge and experience is enhanced significantly though collective endeavour’
• Kennedy. A (2005)
BELL EDUCATIONAL TRUST
Interesting reading
• Hoban, G.F. (2002) Teacher Learning in Educational Change. Buckingham: Open University Press
• Kennedy, A. (2005) Models of continuous professional development: a framework for analysis. Journal of in-Service Education, Vol 31.
• Wenger (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press