Changing Role of The Teacher: Beyond Classroom: Course Code: 8612 Unit 5

Course Code: 8612
Unit 5
CHANGING ROLE OF THE TEACHER:

BEYOND CLASSROOM
OUTLINES
We will learn today about:
 Realize the importance of
professional identity
 Interpret the process of career
development
 Practice reflective journal for
professional development
 Use National Professional Standards
for Teachers as criteria for
professional development
TEACHER’S PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
Meaning of Professional Identity

 Gecas (1982) defined identities
as the various meanings that
are attached to a person by
themselves and others.
 Professional identity is defined
as one’s professional self-
concept based on attributes,
beliefs, values, motives, and
experiences.
IMPORTANCE OF PROFESSIONAL
IDENTITY
 A professional identity affects individual behavior and
psychological well-being in the workplace.
 Individuals’ professional identities determined their moral
decision-making i.e., decisions related to dos and don'ts, good
and bad.
 Professional identification contributes to have positive
performance outcomes such as career success.
 A positive self-concept about professional identity can protect
a person from depression and anxiety.
DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL
IDENTITY
 Five necessary processes in the development of a
professional identity.
 (1) reconciling prior beliefs with teaching,
 (2) locating identity within a community of practice
 (3) managing emotional aspects of identity formation
 (4) integrating experiences and theory of teaching profession
 (5) developing a sense of self-confidence.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
 Career consists of a period of time spent in a job or
profession.
 Career is a general pattern of progress of a person as an
employee.
 It is necessary to identify opportunities and constraints
within the prevailing environment.
 This will help you to focus your efforts on relevant areas
and avoid irrelevant or out of date aspects in the job
market.
STEPS OF SUCCESSFUL CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
 a. Planning: For successful career development, proper
planning is first most important step. Planning involves setting
objectives for your career i.e., what do you want to achieve in
next 05 years in terms of personal and/or professional
development?
 b. Self-awareness: Second important step is to know your
strengths and weaknesses. It may be related to individual skills
i.e. intrapersonal (self-management) and interpersonal
(listening, communication, negotiation).
 c. Professional Opportunities: The next step is to improve in
your weak areas by adopting suitable strategies/opportunity
e.g., if you need to update your pedagogical skills,
WRITING REFLECTIVE JOURNALS
 What is Reflection?
 A dialogue of thinking and doing
through which one becomes more
skilled.
 A process that helps teachers think
about what happened, why it
happened, and what else could have
been done to reach their goals.
 The capacity to think creatively,
imaginatively and, eventually, self-
critically about classroom practice.
WHAT IS REFLECTIVE JOURNAL?
 A journal consists of observations,
insights, memories, impressions
and feelings. Journaling is a way of
having an open dialogue with
oneself. It is a mechanism in
understanding the way you think,
feel and see.
 Writing a journal involves
externalizing your thoughts, ideas,
feelings, impressions, reactions,
dreams, ideals, sorrows,
yearnings, hopes and experiences.
TIME DURATION TO START UP
The crucial thing is to keep writing for at least ten
minutes, to incorporate your hesitations or obstructions
in your actual writing and to let your imagination and
your senses off the leash. It can be written daily, weekly
or after certain time period such as after every two
weeks or monthly. However, it is desirable to write daily.
HOW TO WRITE?
 Writing ‘well’ is irrelevant here. So are concerns

about perfect spelling or grammar or even ease
with words.
 Spelling, grammar, neat handwriting are not very
serious issues when it comes to journal writing.
Don’t edit or rewrite as you go.
SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
 Write in your journal regularly
 Combine the familiar with the unfamiliar.
 Keep your journal where no one else will read it.
 It is possible to be a computer journal writer!
 Use a pen that flows smoothly and feels totally
comfortable in your hand.
 Choose your journals lovingly.
 ‘Forget’ what you wrote yesterday
FORMS OF JOURNAL WRITING
 Forms of journal-writing Journals come in any
shape, size or form. They exist as the five-year
diary with prescribed space for each day, they could
exist as yellow sticky notes stuck on the walls of a
room, or they exist not on paper at all. They may be
in electronic form on audio or videotape or in a
word-processed format and, no doubt, they have
been written on stone or the walls of caves.
NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR
TEACHERS IN PAKISTAN
 The ministry of education has developed national
professional standards for teachers in 2009.
 Professional standards for initial preparation of
teachers are comprised of ten standards. Each
standard has three parts; knowledge (content),
dispositions (behaviour, attitude, and values) and
performance (what teachers do and should be able
to do).
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IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING NPST IN
PAKISTAN
 Along with the mastery of a body of knowledge, teacher
profession requires certain set of skills and attitude.
 Professional standards may help to smooth the activities of
any profession to get the optimal outcomes within a
limited time.
 These standards can serve as criteria for professional
development of teachers. Hence, it can be used for
professional learning, self-assessment and coaching of
teachers.
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Meaning of Professional Identity

 Writing ‘well’ is irrelevant here. So are concerns

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