Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Becoming a Better Teacher: Exploring Professional Development
British Council and UCL Institute of Education
This course explored the approaches, activities and practices needed to improve as a teacher. It examined areas of professional development both inside and outside the classroom that can develop your reflective skills and improve your practice in the classroom.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Michael Bibby
English Global Product Manager
British Council
Kim Insley
International Teacher Education: Portfolio Lead
UCL Institute of Education
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on your own beliefs about teaching, learning and professional development
- Explore the characteristics of successful professional development
- Apply a range of tools, activities and strategies to reflect on and improve learning and teaching
- Identify aspects of your professional practice to develop
- Collaborate with and learn from peers by engaging with communities of practice
- Develop your own iterative professional development plan
Syllabus
- Understanding continuing professional development
- Areas for professional development
- The challenges and solutions of professional development
- Defining and explaining reflective practice
- Understanding and using Kolb’s cycle as a reflective tool
- Considering peer observations as a means of professional development
- Learning through and from classroom observation and peer feedback
- Understanding what communities of practices are and why they are important
- Exploring a range of online communities of practice
- Building the necessary skills for interacting in communities of practice
- Refining the skills to observe your own classroom
- Exploring the Spiral of Inquiry as a tool for improving classroom practice
- Understanding the importance of being a lifelong learner
- Creating your own iterative professional development plan
Issued on 21st March 2018
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