This edited collection focuses on general principles and practices of professional learning and development in both pre-service and in-service teacher contexts for language education around the world.
This edited collection focuses on general principles and practices of professional learning and development in both pre-service and in-service teacher contexts for language education around the world.
The field of teaching is a constantly evolving profession and one of the most important aspects of teaching is learning. Research shows that the more professional learning and development that teachers engage in, the more likely their students are to succeed and the more likely they are to be effective and fulfilled in their careers. This edited collection seeks to stress the continued importance of teacher engagement in professional learning and development for language educators through a variety of different essential elements, among them pre-service teacher education, in-service teacher education, utilizing professional associations, as well as technology-enhanced activities. The book showcases the diversity of teacher learning and development activities and practices used in unique and atypical language education contexts around the world. The contributions in this collection exhibit work done on the African continent and in countries like Brazil, Canada, Japan, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The book will be especially useful for students and pre-service teachers in TESOL, language teaching, and bilingual education, as well as in-service teachers of multilingual learners.
1. Professional Learning and Development: Issues and Considerations
Section 1: Pre-Service
2. Creating Spaces for Collaborative Professional
Learning through Purposeful Scaffolding and Peer Mediation
3. Preservice
Professional Learning and Development for Early Childhood Education
4.
Theres No Language in PE: Why Do I Need to Worry about Language in a
Performance-Oriented Content Class? Section 2: In-Service
5. Teacher
Authenticity to Live Our Values
6. Communities of Practice and Reflective
Teaching in Online Learning Environments
7. Simulation Projects to Overcome
Challenges: Considering Resources, Materials, Learning Management Systems,
and Tools
8. Approaching EFL Teachers Beliefs about Written Corrective
Feedback in the Tunisian Tertiary Context
9. Collaborative Dialogue in
Shaping Critical Intercultural Practices in a Bilingual Public School in
Brazil: An Experience Report on In-service Teacher Development Section 3:
Personal and Professional Development
10. Continuing Professional Development
for Experienced Language Educators and Leaders: Professional Learning in
Plain Sight
11. Turning Points, Critical Moments on the Journey to Developing
Teachers as Leaders: A Transnational-TESOLers Perspectives
12. How Teachers
Can Adapt in Response to Sociocultural Change
13. Engaging in a
Transnationally and Translingually Responsive Pedagogy: Deepening the
Dialectic between Theory and Practice through Practitioner Research
14.
Gaining and Sustaining Your Teacher Mojo: Strategies for Self-Directed
Teacher Professional Learning Section 4: Professional Associations
15. Moving
Forward in Professional Learning and Development
16. Professional Development
Shift of ELTAs during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond
17. Teacher
Association Leadership in Low Resource and Crisis Contexts in Africa:
Adapting, Innovating and Repositioning as Leaders
18. Local Language Teacher
Associations and Educator Professional Development and Learning: The Case of
the Maryland TESOL Handbook
19. Effective and Fulfilling Teaching: How to
Keep the Flame Alive
Christine Coombe, Ph.D., has a Ph.D. in Foreign and Second Language Education from The Ohio State University and is an Associate Professor at the Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai Academic City campus in the United Arab Emirates.
Luciana C. de Oliveira, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Abu Saleh Mohammad Rafi, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh.
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