Senior Teacher Development Presentation Encouraging Individual Staff Growth
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This document outlines a senior teacher's presentation encouraging individual staff development and personal development plans. It discusses creating an individual development culture, minimizing confusion through clarification, and providing solutions related to documentation, time/accessibility, incentives, and personal development plans focused on teaching, academic areas, students, and administration. Examples are provided for each area to illustrate possible goals and initiatives teachers could pursue.
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Senior Teacher Development Presentation Encouraging Individual Staff Growth
- 1. Senior Teacher Presentation Encouraging Individual Staff Development + A Personal Development Plan
Editor's Notes
- This presentation is given today, being mindful of the context in which it is being delivered. That context has much to do with how do 'we', the company and its staff, understand and evaluate where we are now and where we are going. Within this we need to be aware of how our goals are defined & in turn, being assessed. This includes how the company identifies the resources required, and how those resources are used. We do this in a variety of ways, and in the case of individual staff development that is conducted through annual appraisals, teacher observations, meetings, training sessions, and increasingly, by feedback from staff using a variety of means, of which more later. The task to date has been to identify the most appropriate or, in some cases the imposed time scales for each step or company goal and deliver effectively and efficiently. Key to implementation are the company staff, especially those with direct access to our ultimate customer, the English language student.
- Briefly, as I see it, staff are recruited and encouraged to provide solutions to meeting learners' needs identified through teaching practice - Click - individualism; taking a personal initiative. On the other hand, the provision of a common coursebook across all levels engenders a Click - collectivist mentality to deliver language learning, strictly in accordance with its contents, as this is the KIC brand of language learning. The challenge here is to balance the delivery of a consistent language learning product, with the creativity, experience, and initiative of the individual teacher.
- To address this we could: Click - Encourage staff to use strategies that have worked for them in past teaching situations, and are appropriate to apply here. For instance, it would be okay to ignore suggested teaching resources where an individual is confident that the learning objectives could still be delivered to the same standard or even exceeded. Click - Lists of Learning objectives for each language level on a weekly basis could be laminated and displayed. Click - Back this up with teacher-training sessions to highlight the benefits of the less familiar 'spiral curriculum' compared to the better-known 'progressive' curriculum. Click - Encourage staff familiarisation with alternative learner-centred resources for students available outside the classroom - online, Study Centre, various clinics and clubs in the College
- The current atmosphere within the staffroom might be described as that of a 'siege' mentality, with uncertainty created out of changes decided externally and then remotely applied, all delivered with an apparent lack of timely and appropriate communication. So, the challenge is to Click - minimise Click - confusion and ignorance And Click - build Click - confidence and trust How can we do this?
- Some examples might be: Click - Using KIC coursebook materials and focussing on a different language level each week. Mandatory for those language level teacher, optional for others. Maximum 60 minutes duration - classroom-based. This should be recognised by the company as 'teacher training' and resources allocated for attending participants to be paid. Click - Introduce a teacher mentoring scheme, where new staff are teamed up with an experienced and/or time-served member of staff. Click - Staff should appoint from among themselves a 'representative' who would liaise with DoS on common academic issues that might otherwise be ignored. Change on a monthly basis.
- Turning to documentation:- It is essential, I believe, that Click - key verbal communication is, wherever possible given time and other constraints, Click - supported by written clarification. Being mindful of the tone of any documentation is important to convey that staff are valued rather than tolerated, respected rather than ignored. Click - This information should be readily available without the need to ask for it. - Click - OPTIONAL For example: documentation should not as a rule be written from a 'top down' set of instructions, implying that these must be followed without deviation. It stifles creativity and continuous improvement.
- OPTIONAL Key to the success or otherwise of many of these initiatives is collaboration with other Kaplan Colleges. It is too big a task for one College alone, given the many other tasks expected of teaching and academic staff. Documentation should be available - Click - in various formats They could and should take advantage of multimedia resources readily available in College - Click - with some examples here. Click - Liaison with the Blended Learning Specialist, Study Centre Managers, DoS and other schools would be useful to minimise duplication, better manage the initial workload.
- Turning to Time and Accessibility this is a particular challenge to any member of staff with a dual role: administrative with documentation on the one hand, academic with a teaching role on the other. So, Click - is it availability Click - on demand or by appointment? Or, is it Click - a mixture of both? And then, Click - Who are our customers? Click - Staff, Click - students, And Click – how do we prioritise? Click - Students, Click - staff
- Some ideas in this area include… A regular Click - appearance during lunch breaks in the staffroom Click - further activity at the end of one's personal teaching sessions Click - with the key being liaison with the DoS to coordinate requests from students and standardising these through localised document production - class transfers being one example.
- A key question in staff development is implementation. What can be done to achieve success? One way, is through incentives. Benefits of Incentives include:- Click – increased motivation Click - greater creativity Click – encouragement of collaboration with other colleagues And all of this should be acknowledged by the company with some Click - reward-based recognition, which need not be expensive to deliver. OPTIONAL How is this implemented? What are the criteria and who decides? Secret ballot amongst staff. OR Principal/DoS joint decision Recognises successes of increased numbers of students learning at the College as well as individual efforts and successes. Current system is widely discredited as there is a feeling of a 'lack of ownership; Too subjective.
- I have found a number of cost-effective ideas that could serve as possible solutions:- Click - promote individual development by awarding 'taster' sessions in activities relevant or otherwise to an individual's work - The link visits ' Click - using the food facility at this College with a meal voucher Click - where truly exceptional work has been delivered offer time off Click - utilise one of the many heavily-discounted voucher sites on the internet to provide value-for-money rewards - this one is the GroupOn site, with both a localised and national series of promotions Click - finally the more traditional or familiar shopping or book voucher scheme Incentive ideas include:- Click – promoting individual development by awarding “taster” sessions on topics either related or unrelated to daily work - From the website – Campaign 4 Learning.org.uk Click – Issuing a voucher to spend in the College Cafeteria Click – Granting a day off for a colleague’s exceptional application their work Click – Utilising one of several heavily-discounted voucher sites on the internet to provide value-for-money rewards. This weblink takes you to GroupOn, a site with both national and local promotions Click – And finally the more familiar shopping or book voucher scheme
- Part TWO Creating a personal development plan produced the following reflections:- Click - Teaching, in all its forms, to staff and students alike, remains Click - a priority and the Click - rationale is a simple one! Click - Firstly, it appears in the job title of this post, 'Senior Teacher', secondly, having a student focus will help facilitate a shared experience of teaching and so help develop an empathy with other teaching as distinct from academic staff.
- To maintain effective teaching requires Click – regular liaision with the Blended Learning Specialist to maintain an up-to-date knowledge of latest Blended Learning developments Click - offering to pilot any new material within one's own classroom Click - promoting self-study material to students in your own classroom and as appropriate with individual students Click - contributing constructive ideas, weblinks, images and materials to enhance the existing KIC coursework material.
- In the academic area Click – Consideration should be given to developing, after staff consultation, a feedback system to highlight 'best practice' and 'areas for improvement' Click – Conduct a re-assessment of documentation relating to teacher observations and change where appropriate and necessary Click – And lastly, become effective at deputising for the DoS in their absence
- Possible solutions could include:- Click - use of the free online services like 'Survey Monkey‘, to collate informal feedback from staff Click – delivering Teacher observations in a supportive manner, enhancing experiences for both observer and the observed alike. Often the observed teacher will be the more self-critical of their performance than the observer. Open-ended, reflective questions can help here. Click – demonstrate professional generosity by sharing teaching experiences where appropriate and desired Click – commitment to a long-term project, requiring additional staff assistance, to re-structure staffroom resources Click – and included in this, reaching agreement on resources exclusive to elective classes
- There may be a need to review and Click - develop existing learner training and orientation material following the recent changes to language course materials and the increasing use of online features that make such personalised delivery to each student more accessible. All this of course will not be possible without Click - the close attention paid to the accuracy of student records.
- Delivering effective services to students will require Click - liaison with Senior Teacher colleagues elsewhere in the UK and Ireland Click - Local liaison with the DoS and Administrative staff, especially when deputising for the DoS Click - Utilising the facilities of Confluence Click - Skype Click - and Kaplan email Click - Finally, I believe positive benefits could result from a networking event of Senior Teachers, perhaps once a year in a workshop, to enhance collaborative working and creating and sharing new ideas
- Any change of role within an organisation brings with it the challenge of learning new skills, and this is evident in Click - the school management system CLASS. Other skills may include new methods and ways of Click - record keeping and the accurate Click - taking of notes, especially from staff meetings and other events.
- Training support to achieve these identified areas should include Click - Additional training on advanced areas of CLASS, such as Advanced Timetabling, updating of class timetables, and the production of individual student timetables and ISRs. Click - Creating online surveys to identify staff training needs. Click - Guidance on leadership training required to successfully run meetings as and when required to achieve planned outcomes. And, Click - returning to a familiar theme, how best to manage the time available and to prioritize effectively to GET THE JOB DONE!