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Taking responsibility for own professional development

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Taking responsibility for own professional development

Teacher educators who take responsibility for their own professional development:

  • reflect regularly and seek feedback on their work to assess both their strengths as teacher educators and areas for further development
  • strengthen awareness of the impact of their behaviour as it relates to openness, conscientiousness, interactivity, empathy and resilience
  • seek professional improvement by identifying and engaging in independent and collaborative professional development activities (including online) relevant to teacher educators
  • keep up-to-date with current trends in their field
  • define career goals for both the shorter and longer term.
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In this article about writing a chapter for the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’ we hear from Isabela Villas Boas who talks about her own experience of continuing professional development through contributing to the book.

Differentiated Professional Development – promoting and experiencing it: a blog post by Isabela Villas Boas
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