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Distance learning and professional development. Outline of the session. How has the way we learn changed? Distance learning – an overview Technology in distance learning Professional development through distance learning. Learning - What has changed?. Pen and paper Book Blackboard - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Distance learning and professional development
Outline of the session
• How has the way we learn changed?
• Distance learning – an overview
• Technology in distance learning
• Professional development through distance learning
Learning - What has changed?
• Pen and paper
• Book
• Blackboard • Library • Playground,
staffroom
• Computer
• PDF, internet
• IWB
• Internet
• Online activities• Online chat
Distance Learning• Is it really that new?• Is there no contact with the teacher?• And will I never see my fellow students?• Advantages?
– Flexibility– No commuting– Choice of schools and courses– Lower cost
• Disadvantages?
Use of technology
Synchronous
• Telephone
• Webinars
• Web conferences
• Videoconferences
• Internet radio
• Online chats
Asynchronous
• CD
• DVD
• Forums
• eBooks
• Recorded video
What subjects can you study and at what level?
• Huge range of subjects
• Undergraduate
• Postgraduate
• Professional development
Professional development
• What is professional development?
• Characteristics of professional development
• Changes that professional development brings
• Further study
ELT Advantage
Online professional development for English Language Teachers
http://elt.heinle.com/eltadvantage
• Courses approved by TESOL
• Learn from experts in the field
• 19 different areas of study
ELT Advantage• Assessing Language Ability in Young Learners• Content-based Instruction for Language
Learners• An Introduction to Teaching English to Young
learners• Teaching Vocabulary• Teaching Lexically• Making the most of Learner Dictionaries • Teaching EFL/ESL Reading
Pursuing Professional Development
• What is professional development?
• Why it is important for teachers?
• Practical advice
• How to incorporate into daily life
What is Professional Development?
Training or Development
• Training vs Development– Training: ‘the acquisition of a particular set of
skills to complete a specific task’ Curtis, Andy
– Development, in contrast, does not have fixed and pre-determined start and end points
– Product vs Process
Teacher Development
‘Teacher development’ is a term used in the literature to describe a process of continual intellectual, experimental, and attitudinal growth of teachers
Dale Lange, 1990
‘…continued growth both before and throughout a career
"the intent here is to suggest that teachers continue to evolve in the use, adaptation, and application of their art and craft"
Dale Lange, 1990
1. Growth: intellectual, experimental, attitudinal
2. Time periods: Before, during, and after (continuous)
3. Activity Types: Use, adaptation, and application
Teaching: Art or Craft?
More on professional development…
• Continuous process– A beginning but no end– Constant and lifelong
• Growth – the body metaphor– Intellect = head – conscious, deliberate thoughts– Experience = hand – accumulated wisdom based on
3 sets of learning: learning from mistakes, from our successes, from each other
– Attitude = heart – values, beliefs, behaviours
Characteristics of Professional Development
• Awareness
• Stepping back to get a better view
• Decision making
• Choice making
• Responsiveness
• Flexibility
• Change-oriented
Areas of Change Understanding Of our actions and motives and the actions and
motives of others
Understanding Of our actions and motives and the actions and motives of others
Beliefs About language, teaching and learning
Perceptions Of the purpose and reasons for our thoughts and actions
Attitude In terms of how open we are to different ways of being and seeing
Awareness Of the opportunities and the constraints within us and around us
Why is Professional Development Important
Why is professional development important?
• Acquisition of new knowledge and updating current knowledge
• New ways of teaching and learning• New technology • Classroom-based problem-solving
Avoiding ‘routinization’ through variety and creativity• Changes in the context and setting• Promotion and income• Empowerment • Burnout prevention• Networking
What next?
Questions?
http://elt.heinle.com
http://elt.heinle.com/eltadvantage
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