Developing teachers as creative, reflective professionals Paul - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Paul Ellis Head of Teaching & Learning Strategy

Sri Lanka, December 2014

Workshop 2: Developing teachers as creative, reflective professionals

Being reflective

To develop professionally, you must be able to reflect on your practice That reflection can be superficial... ‘I think it went well’, ‘The children enjoyed it’ ... or over-focused on behaviour and ‘order’ ‘The children behaved well’ ‘The class was silent for most of the lesson which was good’ The key issue in your classroom is children’s learning Your reflection should be primarily focused on this.

‘We do not learn from experience… …we learn from reflecting on experience’. Dewey, 1938

Some Reflective Models….

‘Learning by Doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods’ Gibbs, 1988

The Reflective Cycle

Design Apply Practise Do Assess Review Evaluate Learn

PD spiral

Confident Reflective Responsible Innovative Engaged

The Cambridge teacher

Six components of great teaching

1. (Pedagogical) content knowledge  Of material and how students think about the content 2. Quality of instruction  Including effective questioning, assessment, scaffolding 3. Classroom climate  Interactions, demanding more, success from effort 4. Classroom management  Time, behaviour, resources, environment 5. Teacher beliefs  Theories of learning, nature & role of teaching 6. Professional behaviours  Reflection, development, support, communication

From “What makes great teaching?” – Coe et al., Durham University, October 2014

Professional development

What good/bad experiences have you had of training & PD? What training and PD do you currently do and how useful is it? What future training and PD would you like and how/when will you evaluate it?

SWOT/SMART/OPERA

SMART targets Specific Measurable Achievable Resourced Time-framed

OPERA goals Objective Parameters Effects Resources Accountability

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.”

George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman (1903), “Maxims for Revolutionists”

“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach”

Aristotle

“Those who can’t do, teach. And those who can’t teach, teach gym.”

Woody Allen, Annie Hall