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Becoming a Better Teacher: Exploring Professional Development

Grow your skills as a teacher and learn more about professional development for teachers with this online course.

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Summary

Price
Free
Study method
Online
Duration
6 weeks · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification

Overview

Grow your skills as a teacher and learn more about professional development for teachers with this online course.

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Description

Improve your teaching skills by exploring professional development

Keeping up professional development as a teacher can be hard to fit into a busy timetable. It doesn’t need to be. This online course, broken into simple steps, will help you develop your reflective skills and improve your practice in the classroom.

Join a community of others working in education, share your experiences and grow as a teacher. This is professional development designed to help you respond to your needs and is accessible to everyone whatever level of resource is available in their setting.

What topics will you cover?

  • Understanding continuing professional development
  • Areas for professional development
  • The challenges and solutions of professional development
  • Defining and explaining reflective practice
  • Understanding and using Kolb’s cycle as a reflective tool
  • Considering peer observations as a means of professional development
  • Learning through and from classroom observation and peer feedback
  • Understanding what communities of practices are and why they are important
  • Exploring a range of online communities of practice
  • Building the necessary skills for interacting in communities of practice
  • Refining the skills to observe your own classroom
  • Exploring the Spiral of Inquiry as a tool for improving classroom practice
  • Understanding the importance of being a lifelong learner
  • Creating your own iterative professional development plan

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Reflect on your own beliefs about teaching, learning and professional development
  • Explore the characteristics of successful professional development
  • Apply a range of tools, activities and strategies to reflect on and improve learning and teaching
  • Identify aspects of your professional practice to develop
  • Collaborate with and learn from peers by engaging with communities of practice
  • Develop your own iterative professional development plan

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for recently qualified and experienced teachers who are looking to:


- further develop their reflective skills
- update their current practice
- connect with other professionals


It specifically addresses the needs of teachers who teach English (either as a medium of instruction or as a subject) but is also relevant for those who teach other subjects.

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Study method describes the format in which the course will be delivered. At Reed Courses, courses are delivered in a number of ways, including online courses, where the course content can be accessed online remotely, and classroom courses, where courses are delivered in person at a classroom venue.

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development. If you work in certain professions or for certain companies, your employer may require you to complete a number of CPD hours or points, per year. You can find a range of CPD courses on Reed Courses, many of which can be completed online.

A regulated qualification is delivered by a learning institution which is regulated by a government body. In England, the government body which regulates courses is Ofqual. Ofqual regulated qualifications sit on the Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), which can help students understand how different qualifications in different fields compare to each other. The framework also helps students to understand what qualifications they need to progress towards a higher learning goal, such as a university degree or equivalent higher education award.

An endorsed course is a skills based course which has been checked over and approved by an independent awarding body. Endorsed courses are not regulated so do not result in a qualification - however, the student can usually purchase a certificate showing the awarding body's logo if they wish. Certain awarding bodies - such as Quality Licence Scheme and TQUK - have developed endorsement schemes as a way to help students select the best skills based courses for them.
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