Welcome to the module Conceptualising Teacher Development (EDPD807).
The purpose of the module is for you to reflect on the concept of teacher professional learning in a scholarly way that links to your own experience of learning to become a teacher.
- Understand some key concepts in teacher learning and professional development and use these in discussions, writing and reporting.
- Describe the different discourses that underpin different models of professional development.
- Identify and understand the different theories that explain teacher learning.
- Understand teacher development in/through a social, professional and personal frame.
- Examine policy documents that regulate professional development and identify the concepts, discourses and assumptions that underpin them.
- Teacher: Carol Bertram
