Teachers as Self-directed Learners: Active Positioning through Professional Learning

✍ Scribed by Kathleen Smith (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Series: Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 18
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals that teachers have the capacity to think and work differently, yet are rarely provided with opportunities to exercise active decision-making about their personal learning needs. Creating and implementing such an approach involves reimagining all aspects of the learning experience so that teachers are free to articulate their own learning needs and actively work to determine what matters most for their professional practice.

The book breaks new ground by drawing from research related to an in-service program where teachers, their experience and professional thinking were deliberately positioned at the centre of the learning experience. Using this evidenced-based approach, it focuses not only on the learning achieved, but also the conditions that enabled teachers to undertake such learning.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Teachers as Learners: Building an Alternative Landscape....Pages 3-7
Sowing the Seeds for Potential Growth....Pages 9-24
PD and PL: Navigating the Divide....Pages 25-32
Shifting Accepted Routines of Practice....Pages 33-45
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Programme Operational Features Enabling Teachers to Be Active Decision Makers....Pages 49-79
The Role of a Learning Facilitator....Pages 81-89
A New Way of Operating: Emerging Challenges for Traditional Practice....Pages 91-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
The Teacher Perspective: The Value and Impact of Learning Experiences....Pages 99-118
The Facilitator Perspective: The Decisions and Actions That Strategise Teacher Self-Directed Learning....Pages 119-126
Teacher Learning: The Challenges of Passive and Intentional Disconnection....Pages 127-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Teacher Decision Making: Teacher Learning....Pages 137-149
Implications for Approaches to Teacher Learning....Pages 151-156
Teacher Self-Directed Learning: Further Insights....Pages 157-159
Back Matter....Pages 161-183

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education;Professional & Vocational Education;Learning & Instruction