1st Edition
The Personalized Continuing Professional Learning of Teachers A Global Perspective
Taking a personalized and global approach, this timely volume links theory with application in the context of continuing professional development (CPD) for teachers, exploring current scholarship on teachers’ CPD and charting the shift towards continuing professional learning (CPL).
Chapters look at concepts such as motivation, expertise, career trajectory, life story and empowerment, as well as their influences and respective roles in the personalization of teachers’ professional growth during their career. Presenting the principles of personalization and their significance for teachers’ CPL, this book provides a global perspective and model that clarifies the practical implications of the move towards teachers’ personalized CPL, including the necessary changes in both teachers’ attitudes and teacher education frameworks.
Offering a unique and innovative multidimensional ‘template’ model that works as a tool for teachers interested in structuring their professional learning, this book will be useful to practitioners and researchers involved with teachers’ professional development, school leadership, school management, as well as international and comparative education research more broadly.
Part 1: Definitions and Characteristics of Professional Development 1. Theory and Practice of Professional Development 2. Effective Professional Development 3. The Ecology of Professional Development: Heading towards Teachers’ Continuing Learning Part 2: Toward Continuing Professional Learning 4. Adult Learning Theory for Teachers’ Continuing Professional Learning 5. From Professional Development to Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 6. Aspects of Practice for Personalized Continuing Professional Learning Part 3: Aspects of Teachers’ Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 7. Motivation-Oriented Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 8. Career Stage-Oriented Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 9. Life Story-Oriented Personalization of Continuing Professional Learning 10. Empowerment-Oriented Personalized Continuing Professional Learning Part 4: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 11. Principles and pathways for Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 12. Professional Learning Communities as a Sample Framework for Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 13. A Multidimensional Model to Promote Teachers’ Personalized Continuing Professional Learning 14. Conclusion: Widening the adoption of teachers’ personalized professional learning
Biography
Orit Avidov-Ungar is an academic researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Leadership, Achva Academic College of Education, Israel.
