Agenda

ATEE2009-PreconferenceWorkshop4

Date

Saturday 29 August 2009 | 10:00 hour

Teachers’and teacher educators’ ownership of professional quality
Using creative reflection tools to identify professional quality of teachers and teacher educators

The quality of teachers and teacher educators is a matter of public debate in many countries. Policy makers, school leaders, politicians and the general public, all have their opinion on the standards that teachers or teacher educators have to meet. However, the voice of teachers and teacher educators themselves is seldom heard in these debates. This is strange as they are the key players in (developing) teacher (educator) quality.
If we want debates on teacher (educator) quality to have a real impact on the professional quality of teachers and teacher educators, teachers and teacher educators should have a strong involvement in the identification of the core elements of their professional quality.

Within the Comenius project Identifying Teacher Quality, teacher educators from 12 countries developed a toolbox with reflection tools that can help teachers and teacher educators to reflect on their professional quality. The tools from this toolbox can be used in CPD-activities, in in-service teacher education, in communities of practice of teachers in schools and within the curriculum of initial teacher education.
In this pre-conference workshop teachers and teacher educators will become familiar with some of the reflection tools of the toolbox. Given the theme of the conference, the focus will be on reflection tools that stimulate creativity and imagination.

The result of the pre-conference workshop is a more explicit and clear understanding of essential elements of professional quality, and ideas for using the reflection tools within your own context.
Examples of the tools can be found at www.teacherqualitytoolbox.eu.

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