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Planning teacher learning

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Planning teacher learning

In planning effective teacher education courses and sessions (such as workshops, lectures and seminars), teacher educators should be able to:

  • use needs analysis and evaluations of any previous courses and sessions to inform planning decisions
  • define teacher learning objectives that are clear, achievable, appropriate given the teachers’ profile and (where relevant) linked to previous courses or sessions
  • identify and select appropriate learning channels (F2F, virtual, hybrid)
  • identify, select, design and adapt appropriate resources (including digital content) and activities to support these objectives
  • organise the course and sessions into coherent and logically ordered stages
  • identify how and when teachers’ skills and knowledge will be assessed

 

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This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the authors, R Smith, T Connelly and P Rebolledo, explore teacher-research as continuing professional development.

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This article is an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the author, Ann Wiseman, revisits teachers from a CPD programme that took place 12 years earlier, to discover if Continuing Professional Development changes lives.

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