scholarly journals Community of Practice: An Effective Way to ESL Teacher Professional Development in Vocational Colleges

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Shan Kong
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teacher Professional Development ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
Teacher Community ◽  
Vocational College ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Teaching Reform ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Vocational Colleges

Teacher professional development is essential to English teaching reform in vocational colleges. Community of practice presents a new way for professional development of ESL teachers in vocational colleges in China. This paper introduces and discusses the process of creating and exploring ESL teacher community of practice in a vocational college. And it points out that teacher community of practice is an effective way to teacher professional development.

Building the Platform of Teacher Professional Development in Vocational College to Convert Tacit Knowledge

2013 ◽  
Vol 380-384 ◽  
pp. 2906-2910
Author(s):  
Cai Xia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Teacher Professional Development ◽  
Sql Server ◽  
Functional Modules ◽  
Vocational College ◽  
Teaching Activities ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Vocational Colleges

Due to the particularity of vocational education, vocational colleges teacher had a lot of tacit knowledge in skill, which was very difficult to be coded, summed and expressed. The platform was built to promote the conversion of tacit knowledge and improve teacher professional development by some tools and technology. The structure of the platform used B/S mode, and there were some functional modules which were Resource Database, Teacher Studio, Teaching Activities Room and Watching the Video Room. The platform had been developed by Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, C#. Net and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Teaching/Learning Relational Dynamic

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-113
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teacher Professional Development ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Intentional Community ◽  
Antiracist Education ◽  
Teacher Transformation ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
Teaching Learning

The authors contend that relationships are the basis for the teacher transformation that can occur in antiracist teacher professional development. Because self-understandings are developed contextually in relationship with others, sensitive instructor attention created the trust that was essential for teachers to critically examine long held assumptions about race, themselves, and their students. Furthermore, instructors designed the program to build trust among the teachers as teachers additionally learned through interactions with each other. Intentional community building also developed the community of practice that allowed for teachers' gradual participation in the critical work of antiracist education both in the program and in their own classrooms.

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