Professional life cycles of teachers an adpatation of Tessa woodwards
1. Professional Life Cycles Of Teachers-An
Adaptation of Tessa Woodword’s
Presentation
By Iván Aguilar
2. Content
Play it safe!
How can this presentation help us?
Huberman’s model
My life as a teacher
Who lives better?
3. Play it safe!
Listen and write as many adjectives or emotions
come to your mind. There are prices for the ones
who get the most!
4.
5. How can this presentation help us?
To honor teachers at the different stages of their
careers
To devise better strategies when providing support to
teachers in language programs.
I'm also immersed in the endless flow of time.
13. Reassessment
Complete career crisis: What am I doing here?
Trapped/Disenchanted
Stress: emotional tension caused by the inability to
respond to a changing situation.
Burnout: “ A syndrome of emotional exhaustion,
depersonalization, reduced sense of
accomplishment.”
Two paths:
SOLVED: part time/mentoring/management/new
hobby/change school/leave/retire
UNSOLVED: procrastination/complaining/fewer
achievements
15. Serenity
Self acceptance in face of difficulty
Some problems become easier to deal with
Support for younger colleagues
Relational distance: Isolation
20. Important
The process is not linear
There are plateau effects
There are regressions
There are jumps
21. My life as a teacher
Do you recognize yourself in one of the stages?
What creative responses can you think of for the
challenges and opportunities of each phase?
22. Who lives better?
“Teachers who steered clear of reforms or other
multiple-classroom innovations but who invested
consistently in classroom- level experiments…were
more likely to be satisfied later…”
23. Objectives
To recognize the importance of identifying stages in
teachers’ professional life cycles.
To identify a stages in the development of a teacher
as a professional
To reflect about stages of professional life from a
personal perspective