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Teaching, Learning, Leading CONFERENCE 2005 |
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Donald Freeman Changing teaching: Insights into individual development in the context of schools |
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| How do institutions and schools systems change? How do individuals change their teaching within the contexts of their schools and their professional peer groups? Using three concrete images to conceptualize and explore the change process, this talk examines these questions which underscore how change is embedded within-- and therefore interacts with-- the surrounding socio-cultural and institutional environments. The aim is to lay out some of the operational parameters of the change process, to provide easily memorable points of reference for those parameters, and to discuss specific implications for individual change in teaching. | |
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Biodata: Donald Freeman is Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies in Language Teacher Education at the School for International Training, where he also directs the Center for Teacher Education, Training, and Research. He serves on the board of the TESOL International Research Foundation as well as the International Advisory Council for the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. Freeman is co-author-- with Kathleen Graves and Linda Lee-- of ICON-International Communication through English, a four-level series that combines student language learning and teacher development published by McGraw-Hill. His current work focuses on the interrelations between teacher development, school change, and student learning. |