Early career professional development for language teachers

1. Shona Whyte
Professional
development
M2 MEEF
December 2014

2. Why professional
development?

3. Teacher-researcher collaboration
❖ videoconferencing in
tandem ELF project
❖ CALL teacher
education workshop
❖ sharing/reinvestment
of results of research
❖ making sense of
teaching and learning
EFL: English lingua franca
CALL: computer assisted language learning

4. Compétences du professeur :
D6 Réflexion et développement professionnel
❖ réfléchit sur sa pratique - seul et entre
pairs (se questionne, s’autoévalue et
identifie ses besoins)
❖ est acteur de son projet de formation
(sollicite des conseils, suit les
préconisations de remédiation,
approfondit les connaissances de sa
discipline et de son enseignement)
❖ réinvestit les résultats de l’analyse de sa
pratique et de son activité dans le travail
avec les élèves

5. How?
❖ journal articles
❖ associations
❖ conferences
❖ personal learning network

6. Journals
en français
•Cahiers de
l’APLIUT
•Cahiers de
l’Acedle
•ELA
•Langues
modernes
•Mélanges
CRAPEL
English
•Modern
Language
Journal
•Language
Teaching
Research
•TESOL
Quarterly
•Babylonia
Online
•bibliotheque.unice.fr
•scholar.google.fr

7. Associations
❖ TESOL France http://www.tesol-france.org
❖ APLV http://www.aplv-languesmodernes.org/

8. Conferences (= colloques)
❖ TESOL France http://www.tesol-france.org
❖ annual conference, workshops
❖ Cyberlangues

9. Personal learning network
❖ blogs
❖ Facebook pages
❖ Twitter
❖ Scoop.it
❖ others?
read
share
comment
contribute

10. Blogs
❖ Geoffrey Jordan https://canlloparot.wordpress.com/
❖ Facebook pages https://www.facebook.com/
TeachingEnglish.BritishCouncil
❖ Twitter @rosemerebard
❖ scoop.it http://www.scoop.it/t/group-work-and-
interaction-in-language-learning-classrooms
❖ others?

11. Work in progress
DON’T WAIT
•until you have time
•until you know enough
•until your contribution is
perfect
START SMALL
•reading provides ideas
•writing helps formulate
ideas
•feedback maintains
motivation

12. GOAL requirement:
❖ Take charge of your tutor group on EFOR: help your tutors to access the platform and work out the
best way for you all the communicate. Get copies of your reports to whyte@unice.fr
❖ Read and comment on other students’ blog posts, and make your own posts in response. Use links to
help others follow.
❖ Follow some ELT blogs, and look on Facebook and Twitter for relevant sources for teaching materials,
ideas, advice and further training opportunities.
❖ ELT blogs
❖ http://valentinamorgana.wordpress.com
❖ http://kalinago.blogspot.it/
❖ http://evasimkesyan.com/
❖ http://vickyloras.wordpress.com/
❖ http://sandymillin.wordpress.com
❖ http://elt-resourceful.com

13. Today
❖ CLIL assignment
❖ Teacher efficacy questionnaire
❖ Demotivation
❖ permissions