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Distance learning and professional development

Distance learning and professional development. Outline of the session. How has the way we learn changed? Distance learning – an overview Technology in distance learning Professional development through distance learning. Learning - What has changed?. Pen and paper Book Blackboard

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Distance learning and professional development

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  1. Distance learning and professional development

  2. Outline of the session • How has the way we learn changed? • Distance learning – an overview • Technology in distance learning • Professional development through distance learning

  3. Learning - What has changed? • Pen and paper • Book • Blackboard • Library • Playground, staffroom • Computer • PDF, internet • IWB • Internet • Online activities • Online chat

  4. Distance Learning • Is it really that new? • Is there no contact with the teacher? • And will I never see my fellow students? • Advantages? • Flexibility • No commuting • Choice of schools and courses • Lower cost • Disadvantages?

  5. Use of technology Synchronous • Telephone • Webinars • Web conferences • Videoconferences • Internet radio • Online chats Asynchronous • Email • CD • DVD • Forums • eBooks • Recorded video

  6. What subjects can you study and at what level? • Huge range of subjects • Undergraduate • Postgraduate • Professional development

  7. Professional development • What is professional development? • Characteristics of professional development • Changes that professional development brings • Further study

  8. ELT Advantage Online professional development for English Language Teachers http://elt.heinle.com/eltadvantage • Courses approved by TESOL • Learn from experts in the field • 19 different areas of study

  9. ELT Advantage • Assessing Language Ability in Young Learners • Content-based Instruction for Language Learners • An Introduction to Teaching English to Young learners • Teaching Vocabulary • Teaching Lexically • Making the most of Learner Dictionaries • Teaching EFL/ESL Reading

  10. Pursuing Professional Development • What is professional development? • Why it is important for teachers? • Practical advice • How to incorporate into daily life

  11. What is Professional Development?

  12. Training or Development • Training vs Development • Training: ‘the acquisition of a particular set of skills to complete a specific task’ Curtis, Andy • Development, in contrast, does not have fixed and pre-determined start and end points • Product vs Process

  13. Teacher Development ‘Teacher development’ is a term used in the literature to describe a process of continual intellectual, experimental, and attitudinal growth of teachers Dale Lange, 1990

  14. ‘…continued growth both before and throughout a career "the intent here is to suggest that teachers continue to evolve in the use, adaptation, and application of their art and craft" Dale Lange, 1990

  15. Growth: intellectual, experimental, attitudinal • Timeperiods: Before, during, and after (continuous) • ActivityTypes: Use, adaptation, and application

  16. Teaching: Art or Craft?

  17. More on professional development… • Continuous process • A beginning but no end • Constant and lifelong • Growth – the body metaphor • Intellect = head – conscious, deliberate thoughts • Experience = hand – accumulated wisdom based on 3 sets of learning: learning from mistakes, from our successes, from each other • Attitude = heart – values, beliefs, behaviours

  18. Characteristics of Professional Development • Awareness • Stepping back to get a better view • Decision making • Choice making • Responsiveness • Flexibility • Change-oriented

  19. Areas of Change

  20. Why is Professional Development Important

  21. Why is professional development important? • Acquisition of new knowledge and updating current knowledge • New ways of teaching and learning • New technology • Classroom-based problem-solvingAvoiding ‘routinization’ through variety and creativity • Changes in the context and setting • Promotion and income • Empowerment • Burnout prevention • Networking

  22. What next?

  23. Questions? http://elt.heinle.com http://elt.heinle.com/eltadvantage www.twitter.com/HeinleELT

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