Professional Development Irina Grekova BKC-IH Moscow-2015

1. Professional Development
Irina Grekova
CELTA, DELTA, MA in TESOL
CELTA trainer, assessor
BKC International House Moscow
http://www.bkcih-moscow.com t-training@bkc.ru

2. Professional Development
 Foord D. 2009 The Developing Teacher. DELTA
Publishing
 Richards, Jack C. 30 Years of TEFL/TESOL:
Personal Reflection, SEAMEO Regional Language
Centre, Singapore
 Liu, Jun 2013 Six Abilities of a Future ELT
Professional, IATEFL plenary session at the
conference in Liverpool

3. Duncan Foord
‘The Developing Teacher’ DELTA Publishing, 2009

4. References
 '30 years of TEFL/TESOL: A Personal Reflection'
Jack C Richards, SEAMEO Regional Centre,
Singapore
 Professor Jun Liu 'ELT Tomorrow'
IATEFL Conference 2013, Liverpool

5. Professional Development
 Areas of professional development
 Strategies of PD
 Activities and projects of PD
 TT courses and programs

6. Professional Development
What is professional development?

7. Professional Development
'It isn’t the same thing having ten years’ experience as
having one year’s experience repeated ten times.'
D. Foord (2009)

8. Professional Development
'If we are doing something we enjoy, then
Continuous Professional Development is a natural
component of our daily work life. It is an attitude.'
Alison Perkins
'Training is what other people do to you.
Development is what you do to yourself.'
Julian Edge

9. Professional Development
Implications:
The development isn’t possible without explicit and
conscious changes in routine and activity.
Some teachers do this and some teachers don’t but
just repeat tried and tested routines.

10. Steps of self-development
unconscious
competence
conscious
competence
conscious
incompetence
Unconscious
incompetence

11. Developmental flow
High Flight
Confidence
Flow
Fight
Low High challenge

12. Professional Development
You can change or develop in 3 ways:
- You change through experience and reflection
- You change by making things happen
- You change as a result of things that happen to you

13. Areas of professional development
1) Skills
2) Knowledge
3) Awareness
4) Attitude

14. Areas of professional development
 Developing a repertoire of teaching skills
 Knowledge: applied linguistic competence
content knowledge
disciplinary knowledge
 Awareness- realizing what is happening when
you teach
 Attitude-your assumptions about teaching,
learning, yourself, your Ss, culture

15. Applied Linguistic Competence
 Monitor your own speech
 Give correct FB on learner’s language
 Provide input at an appropriate level
 Provide language enrichment experiences for
learners
 Access target language resources
 Able to improvise in a lesson

16. Pedagogical Content Knowledge
 Understand learners’ needs
 Diagnose learners’ problems
 Plan suitable instructional goals for learners
 Select and design learning tasks
 Design and adapt texts
 Evaluate and choose published materials
 Adapt commercial materials

17. Professional Development
5 circles of development:
You
You and your students
You and your colleagues
You and your school
You and your profession

18. You- the first circle
• Worked on my time
management skills
• Reflecting on your
teaching/development
• Completing self-
diagnostic tests
• Recording/ videoing
your lesson
• Learning another
language
• Keeping a teaching
diary
• Reading a TEFL book
• Improving your LA
• Trying a new approach
• Incorporating songs/
poetry/literature
• Experimenting with
lesson formats

19. Self-observation Task
Section 2 – Planning My score
Did I anticipate the problems my students had?
Were the aims appropriate for these Ss?
Did I achieve my aims (linguistic and communicative)?
Section 3 – Teacher performance My score
Did the Ss understand my instructions?
Were all my Ss catered for?
Did I vary interaction patterns between Ss?
How much did I talk?
Was any of my talk inappropriate?
How/ when were Ss corrected?
Was there any peer or self-correction?
Section 4 – Student performance My score
Was there positive learning environment or not?
How authentic was the communication?
How much did my Ss talk?
Section 5 – Conclusions My score
In what areas do I need to improve?

20. You- the first circle
 Self-designed PD program
My goals
(What?)
When? Done? Comments
Video my
lesson
Wedn

21. You- the first circle
Why I am a teacher?
I get a sense of
satisfaction from
helping Ss progress
I like working with people
I like the variety in the job
I have long holidays
It’s a secure job
I like the challenge
I enjoy working with my
colleagues
I can be creative
I am my own boss a lot of
the time
I have fun at work
I am seldom bored

22. 6 abilities of a Competent English
Teacher
 Make constant and effective changes
 Learn and speak at least one other language
 Teach less to maximize learning
 Teach English in at least one subject area
 Familiarize oneself with new learning and teaching
modes
 Ensure learning outside the classroom
Jun Liu (2013)

23. You and your students
 Your students’ needs
 Getting feedback
 Trying something new

24. You and your students
Your students’ needs
Personalities
Personal life
Likes and dislikes
Hobbies and interests
Learning styles and intelligences
Strengths and weaknesses in English

25. Motivating Our Learners : Actualizing
the Vision

26. You and your students
My English is PERFECT!!! 
My future ideal English speaking self
 What would you like to be able to do in English?
 What situations would you see yourself in?
 Who would you speak to? What about?
 How do people react to you?
 How do you feel about yourself?

27. Your students’ needs
My Ideal L2 Self
1) My successful tourist self
2) My successful career self
3) My Global Citizen Self
4) My Member of the Community self
(Jill Hadfield ‘Motivating Learning’)

28. Getting feedback
 Writing a letter (Dear Students/teacher…)
 Hot FB/ Cool FB
 FB on learning

29. Professional Development
You and your students
Changes in
teaching
Where?
When? What?
Who?
How?

30. Trying something new
Who: T becomes a S, Ss become a T
Where: change the room layout and your
plan
How: vary approaches/techniques/format
When: vary the sequence of your lesson
plan
What: teach smth completely different

31. You and your students
Activities
Needs from the heart
3 against 1
The Black Book
I and my perfect English

32. You and your colleagues
 In the classroom
 In the staffroom
 In and out

33. You and your colleagues
Inviting a colleague to your class
 Be my GUEST
Chat Show / Press Conference/ Mini-talk
 Be my Student
 Be my Judge

34. The Johari Window
The Open Self
(known by ourselves and
others)
The Blind Self
(What others see but you
don’t)
The Secret Self
(What you know about your
self and others don’t)
The Hidden Self
(The part of you no-one
knows about)

35. You and your colleagues
 Planning and teaching someone else’s lesson
 Dream team- planning and teaching the class
together
 Swapping classes
 Sharing Board (in the Teachers’ Room)

36. You and your colleagues
 Vocabulary task: Use the following words in
sentences (seaside, planet, umbrella, envelope,
canoe, waving)
 Grammar task: Write 5 sentences using Past
Simple
 Writing task: Write a thank you letter

37. You and your profession
 Attending a conference
 Being a member of an online teachers’ group
 Lead a workshop or talk at a conference
 Write material for a website or in print
 Write an article for a website or in print
 Create your own teaching-related website
 Consider your career aims
 Complete a course leading to a qualification
(such as Diploma or Masters)
 Trialled material for a publisher

38. You and your profession

39. You and your profession

40. You and your profession
BKC PD Programs
 TKT
 IHCYLT
 IHFTBE
 IH CAM
 LA
 Workshops (Methodology, Exams,
LOTE, YL, VYL)
 Methodology Day
 DELTA M1 preparation

41. PD Programs and Courses
IH Certificates in
 Online Tutoring
 Advanced Methodology
 Director of Studies Course
 Business English
 Language Awareness
 Teaching 1-2-1
 DELTA M1 preparation
http://ihworld.com/online-training

42. You and your profession
 Attending and presenting at conferences
(IATEFL Conference, TT Barcelona, IH DOS, IHWO
Online Conferences/ Webinars)
 Membership of professional communities
 Reading professional literature, writing for
publication)

43. IH World Organization Online Programmes
http://ihworld.com/online-training

44. ’Feeling good about yourself
is your top professional
responsibility’
Susan Barduhn
Professional Development

45. Professional Development
Shawn Achor: The better secret to better work.
(TED.com)
Reverse the formula for happiness and success.
Not working hard – becoming more successful – being
happier
Being positive – will work better – will be successful

46. Professional Development
1.Writing down 3 new things you are grateful for
2. Journaling about one positive experience
3. Meditation
4. Random acts of kindness