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Professional Development WorkshopProfessional Development Workshop

Ischia 16-18 October 2008Ischia 16-18 October 2008

Too many demands?

…but what is the meaning of lifelong learning for teachers, when

they are the learners

“Teachers need good education too”(European Commission, 2007). .

What is Professional Development?

A product ?

Or a process

Let’s break isolation

CoP

“learning is the result of social interaction within a community that shares the same interests and values”.

Leave and Wenger (2002)

“The accomplished Teacher”

Ready Willing Able Reflective and Communal

Shulman, LS and Shulman, JH (2004).How and what teachers learn: a shiftingperspective. Journal of Curriculum Studies

VISION

MOTIVATION

KNOWLEDGE BUILDING

Learning in communities

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