This post by NovaNews beautifully links many of ideas I’ve been writing about in some very practical ways. What can we as language teachers do to ensure our continual professional growth?
I recently read an impassioned article by Geoff Eggins “Teacher Learners: Towards Realistic and Sustainable ICT Professional Development in Schools” in the journal Education Technology Solutions (Issue 41: April/May 2011). Unfortunately the article doesn’t appear online. One can only hope that this and many of the other interesting articles appearing in this publication, will eventually become available to a broader audience.
At the outset, Eggins poses a number of rhetorical questions:
Why [do] many schools ignore the lifelong learning goal for their teaching staff’s professional development? Has it been decided that teachers will not be in the profession long enough to warrant teaching them how to survive their future? Have we made the assumption that teachers have already learnt how to learn?
The thrust of his argument is that teachers need to be shown how to learn so that they can not only stay abreast of technological advances in…
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