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From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development

From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development. This PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying handout will be available next week from the MEXTESOL website.www.mextesol.org.mx. How to cite this presentation. Anderson, N. J. (2007, November). From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teac

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From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development

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    1. From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development Neil J. Anderson, Ph.D. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA neil_anderson@byu.edu http://linguistics.byu.edu/andersonn.php

    2. From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development This PowerPoint presentation and an accompanying handout will be available next week from the MEXTESOL website. www.mextesol.org.mx I will be moving through the PP slides too fast to be able to write it all down. Perhaps write down the title of an activity and not the details. Go to the PP and the HO on line for the details later.I will be moving through the PP slides too fast to be able to write it all down. Perhaps write down the title of an activity and not the details. Go to the PP and the HO on line for the details later.

    3. How to cite this presentation Anderson, N. J. (2007, November). From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development. Plenary address at the MEXTESOL conference, Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico.

    4. From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development Goals for this plenary session: To establish the value of professional development. To share resources to assist you in your own professional development. To share a “teacher’s dozen” of tools for improving your teaching.

    5. Professional Development? But what works? “One-shot workshops and prepackaged seminars, although potentially effective for creating awareness and building discrete skills, are insufficient for facilitating teacher collaboration and change” (Claire, 1998, p. 466, TESOL Quarterly, 32). Conferences, like TESOL and MEXTESOL, do very little at changing wht we do in our classrooms.Conferences, like TESOL and MEXTESOL, do very little at changing wht we do in our classrooms.

    6. From Egg Crate to Omelet: Energizing Teacher Development The conference theme: Where to from here? We have an individual and collective responsibility to challenge ourselves to improve our skills as teachers and leaders through professional development so that we know where we are going from here.

    7. The egg crate mentality Don Lortie (1975) has compared schools and teaching to “egg crates” in which individual teachers work largely in isolation within their separate rooms with different groups of students, like eggs in the separate sections of their carton.

    8. Our challenge . . . to create an omelet.

    9. Question . . . how will we do that? by establishing a community of practice where talking about our teaching is a daily event. by making our teaching and our thinking about our teaching “open to public inspection” (Shulman).

    10. The egg crate mentality From To

    11. Resource Dietrich, S. E. (2007). Professional development and English language teaching in Tamaulipas: Describing the training and challenges of two groups of teachers. MEXTESOL Journal, 31 (2), 31-36.

    12. Resource Briggs, S. (2007). Being an ELT professional in the 21st Century. Plenary address at the 34th MEXTESOL conference. Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico.

    13. What makes an ELT professional? Sandy Briggs

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