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Understanding teacher learning

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Understanding teacher learning

With regard to Understanding teacher learning, teacher educators’ work is informed by an understanding of:

  • the competences teachers need to be effective practitioners
  • key theories of adult and professional learning and behavioural change
  • key processes in professional learning, such as collaboration, reflection and inquiry
  • how teacher attitudes, beliefs and motivations affect professional learning
  • overcoming barriers to effective professional learning
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This article presents an extract from the British Council publication, ‘Innovations in the continuing professional development of English language teachers’. Here the authors, A Padwad and K Dixit, outline practical issues they discovered during their innovative think tank project.

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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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