Professional Development

The Road Not Taken

Mariana PortaLaura Gonzalez

Leonardo Castelluccio

The Road Not Taken

The road not taken video 1

The road not taken video 2

So...if you are a teacher  this workshop invites you to reflect upon...

• What makes me choose certain roads in     my professional life?•  How much have I gotten involved in professional

development?•  Are there any new tools or ways to get involved in PD

that could make it easier for me to engage?

if you are a mentor or coordinator ...

Why do certain teachers get so much more involved in PD than others?How could I consider those individual differences?How could PD programs in my school be more engaging for everybody?  

What is professional development for teachers?

Teacher development is a term used in the literature to describe a process of continual, intellectual, experiential and attitudinal growth of teachers.Dale Lange

... but as Andy Curtis says ..."no one can be made to develop"

.... so ... what makes teachers develop? 

... and ... why bother with development? (as they put it) 

Activity 1

»What are the advantages of having a professional development program at the working place?»How can this help teachers prevent burnout or cope with it?»Have you had any experience with online professional development?

We involved our community in this reflective activity Analia

AlejandraLeoMary AnnClaudia

• quality: skillful and efficient working force, standardization of procedures

• keeping updated, feeling motivated, motivating students

• the social component, having fun, tearing down walls

• PD online: depends on people's commitment• online tools used as learning strategies, not to "kill time"• PD online can be fast and cheaper than onground PD

programs

Why bother with teacher development?

• K Bailey, Andy Curtis and D Nunan answer:

– to acquire new knowledge and skill – to keep up with changes around us– to increase our power over our own lives (work our way

forward)– to combat negativity in our teaching contexts– to fight or prevent burnout– to overcome sense of isolation – to expand our conceptual understanding of teaching

Breaking PD into components

 What influences the way we approach professional development?  OBJECTIVE DATA: age, sex, seniority INDIVIDUAL VARIABLES: personality, stage in the profession CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES: teacher development programs ongoing at the workplace, training in, and availability of tools.

What variables affect teacher development?

Today we will focus on two:

stages in the profession

individual personality traits

Developmental Stages of teachers(Katz'model 1972)

 

Survival Consolidation

Renewal Maturity

Activity 2 Stages in the profession              What stage are you in?

Take 5 minutes to reflect upon your teaching.Check the items in the handout that apply to you.  

 Are you surprised with the results?

Stages in the profession

• SURVIVAL  • CONSOLIDATION

  • RENEWAL

  • MATURITY

  

What is the connection between teacher's stage in the profession and professional development?

• Getting involved in a systematic teacher development      program will help you through all stages. 

• The renewal stage may come with a crisis and TD is       the way to get out. 

• When we create a TD program we need to aim at teachers        who are undergoing different stages. 

• PD programs should rely on the mixed abilities that             emerge from teachers being at different stages.

How do personality traits influence our attitudes towards development? 

• What makes me choose certain roads in my professional life?

How could I consider those individual differences?How could PD programs in my school be more engaging for everybody?  

Our personality traits show in our attitude and in those internal dialogs we have.

  What kind of internal dialogs do I have that affect my professional choices when it comes to professional development?

Cloninger's model : 3 dimensions of temperament

1.harm avoidance2.novelty seeking3.reward

dependance

He focused on the structure of learning abilities within the person. He described 3 dimensions of temperament 

Temperament and Neurotransmitter system

Novelty seeking: Low dopaminergic activityHarm avoidance: High serotonergic activityReward dependence:Low noradrenergic activity

HARM AVOIDANCE

POSITIVE NEGATIVE

harm avoidance

cautiousnesscareful planning

anticipatory worryfear of uncertaintyextreme shynessperfectionismdifficulty to relax and enjoy

INTERNAL DIALOGS

NOVELTY SEEKINGNEGATIVE POSITIVE

novelty seeking

impulsivenessextravagancedisorderlinesslack of focus

risk taking spiritexcitement about explorationopenness to changesoptimistic thinking

INTERNAL DIALOGS

REWARD DEPENDANCE

NEGATIVE POSITIVE

reward dependant

dependance on approval of otherssentimentality 

 openness to warm communicationsocial sensitivityattachment

INTERNAL DIALOGS

Activity 3 Where would you place yourself?

+ novelty seeking

+   harm avoidance anxiety and pesimismWhat if it goes wrong?

-  harm avoidance

exploratory, excitement facing new promising stimuli

-novelty seeking

 

+ reward dependence-reward dependence highly sensitive to signals of reward

social sensitivity and attachment.

 

Which PD tools can adapt to individual variables?

Which PD tool can consider different needs of a varied staff that is permanently integrating new members?

Which PD tool adapts to different schedules, personal rhythm , etc.?

We wonder:

MENTORSHIP!!

Mentoring An ongoing reciprocal relationship that is not supervisoral in nature, provides a psychological safety net and assesses readiness level (job readiness and psychological readiness)    

open channels of communicationtrustmodellingsystematicityregularitypatiencegentlenessgenerosityhonest feedbackrecognitionpromotion 

ONLINE MENTORING WITH GOOGLE SITES

site content: academic documents fileAndrea's boardClaudia's boardReading corner

Thank you for cooperating with this presentation

Alianza Costa staff

Analia Germano

Alejandra Fernandez

Mary Ann Modesto

Dr. Marcelo Escobal for professional advice on Cloninger's model.

And thank you all for attending thisWorkshop!

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bayley, Kathleen, Curtis Andy and Nunan, David. Pursuing Professional Development. 2001 Pursuing Professional Development

Katz, Lilian G. The Developmental Stages of Teachers. http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/pubs/katz-dev-stages.html

Cloninger CR. A A psychological model of temperament and character. Archives of General Psychiatry 1993;50:975.990