How to fit a week into 3 days: Continuous professional development for language centre teachers
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| Rok publikování | 2024 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | Time constraints seem to be a challenge for almost every language teacher in balancing their teaching responsibilities and personal development. This presentation discusses strategies for offering professional development opportunities with respect to teachers' limited timeframe. As an institution employing more than 60 internal teachers of various languages, Masaryk University Language Centre (CJV in Czech) organizes a range of professional development activities. The core practices include workshops, sharing sessions, peer observations, exchange programs with international partners, and an internal conference known as the “CJV week”. Aligned with the concept of community of practice (Wenger, 1998), most of the professional development activities emphasize collaboration, sharing of best practices and interaction among teachers. Based on the data from teacher surveys and focus group interviews, the presentation examines teachers´ evaluation of the existing professional development opportunities. It focuses on their perception of efficiency and effectiveness in utilizing time for professional growth. The aim of the presentation is to reflect on the perceived barriers that hinder teachers in accessing the available resources for professional growth. Through examining teachers' perspectives, the presentation seeks to provide insights into how organizing professional development can be optimized and identify successful strategies to address existing challenges, such as “how to fit a week into 3 days”. |