PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

1. PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Nergis Uyan Akbay Director, School of English Language Instruction 2011, 28th May

2. IKU-Roundtable Meeting 1.DEVELOPMENT & TRAINING Professional & Personal Development & Growth-WHY? Developing as a teacher & as a person-WHY? What is Training? What is Development?

3. IKU-Roundtable Meeting INSTITUTIONAL & INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Needs Strengths Weaknesses Suggestions

4. IKU-Roundtable Meeting HOW TO DEVELOP PROFESSIONALLY? Opportunities Alternatives   THE NEXT STEP Where to go from here   QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

5. IKU-Roundtable Meeting What is Professional Development? “activities to enhance professional career growth” (Educational Resources Information Center –ERIC) “ every day is a professional development day” ( Tienken & Stonaker; 2007)

6. IKU-Roundtable Meeting Professional Development “the sum total of formal and informal learning experiences throughout one’s career from pre-service teacher education to retirement” (Fullan;1991)

7. IKU-Roundtable Meeting Professional Development “ goes beyond the term “training” with its implications of learning skills, and encompasses a definition that includes formal and informal means of helping teachers not only learn new skills but also develop new insights into pedagogy and their own practice, and explore new or advanced understandings of content and resources. This definition includes support for teachers as they encounter the technology to support inquiry-based learning...Current technologies offer resources to meet these challenges and provide teachers with a cluster of supports that help them continue to grow in their professional skills, understandings, and interests. ”(Grant; n.d.)

8. IKU-Roundtable Meeting TRAINING vs DEVELOPMENT

9. IKU-Roundtable Meeting TRAINING Formal Courses Trainer Trainees Achievement -Success & failure Input & Observable Outcome More short-term A means to an end

10. IKU-Roundtable Meeting DEVELOPMENT Personal Process Journey of self-discovery Individualized Teacher /Institutional needs Teacher growth Looks beyond today, a more long-term focus

11. IKU-Roundtable Meeting DEVELOPMENT Personal Process

12. IKU-Roundtable Meeting Professional Development Creating and enriching a climate of development opportunities Committed to staff development at different levels (individual teacher, whole school, etc.) Guarantee all teachers the right to development opportunities Support & guidance in teaching & career planning “What am I going to do to develop?” & “What can the school do to help you develop?”

13. IKU-Roundtable Meeting Professional Development Must be tied back to student achievement Should be ongoing & long-term activities that enhance classroom instruction All must relate to the school improvement plan Evaluation of the professional development activities must be conducted

14. IKU-Roundtable Meeting PD Opportunities Training (in service-a series of sessions) Formal training courses & programmes (CELTA-ICELT-DELTA-MA,etc) Workshops & Swapshops & Presentations Readings &Discussion & Reflection hours & tasks Exchange of ideas (different forums) Mentoring & Coaching Conferences Action Research Classroom Observations-Peer Observations Team-teaching One-to-one support Symposium Conference

15. IKU-Roundtable Meeting The Next Step PDP for your school/for you ? Vision, mission ? Official Training Courses/ Programmes In-service Training Programme? Committee ? Event Organisers ? Other??

16. QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

17. THANK YOU