Elaine Wilson Faculty of Education
Teacher Professional Development for the 21st Century
Moral Purpose
Knowing and knowing what you don’t know
Pedagogical knowledge and skills
Ethics , moral code and emotions
Cognitive
Affective Social
Learning Domains
In the mind
How we feel about ourselves as learners
Learning through Social interaction
Education and Training
Teacher Education and Training
Why?
How?
Teacher Development
Context Specific
Active
Sustained
Collaborative
Inquiry based
The Centre of Excellence Programme
Leading Learning in a
school and being part of a
network
• Level One
Leading learning of colleagues
• Level Two
Lead learning in a Classroom
• Level Three
Moral Purpose
The Focus
Planning for learning for ALL students
Whole Curriculum
Medium term plan
Lesson plan
• Subject Syllabus
• Scheme of work • Sequence of
lessons
• Individual lesson
What will you learn?
What to teach
How to structure
sequences of learning
How children
learn
How to assess if you have been successful
How will you learn?
Reading and reflecting • Working together in
workshops • Writing about your
ideas
Professional conversations • Joint planning • Talking about ideas,
plans and experiences
Working in authentic classrooms • Making judgements
in classrooms• Learning from
experiences and making mistakes
Who will help you?
Teacher Practitioner Research
Lesson Study
Teacher Led Development work
Action Research
Understanding
Skill
‘Levers’ for Transforming Practice