Happy New Year

Upfront and Personal

key questions for the session


1- What is your professional identity?
2-How do you values, beliefs and emotions inform your professional practice?

"Who in the world am I?"

Your professional teaching brand

Today's key questions?

• What are the characteristics of an effective teaching brand?
• What is your teaching brand?

the learning package

Individual teaching styles reflect diverse elements driven by the psychological make-up of teachers, their formative experiences both as vocational and/or academic practitioners and often importantly, their attitudes to learners.
(Stott, 2010, p3)

In essence tutors who expect their students to make progress are likely to find this expectation self-fulfilling. Perhaps just as importantly, where tutors are doubtful about their students' potential this will be communicated and be self-fulfilling.

Lawrence, 2000, p63

Empathy is the drive to identify another person's emotions and thoughts and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion.

Baron-Cohen 2002, p248

Don't make the common mistake of forgetting how important these relationships are to learners because you are so preoccupied with the learners' relationship with you.

Rogers, 2001, p53

Common features of a professional brand

• promotes inclusion, harmony, cooperation, respect and trust
• learners are actively engaged in learning
• learners are motivated, challenged, encouraged and supported
• learners experience and knowledge is valued by the teachers
• learners can experience success and enjoy their learning

Can you identify your teaching brand.
What best experience do you want for your learners and what is your passion?

relationships

Nature and Culture of your workplace

Handy (1993) and Senge (2006)

role, task, person, power

personal mastery, shared vision and team learning

Geert Hofstede's

Communication

Research the work of Belbin and group roles.


Which of his categories is most appropriate to you. In what ways does this affect your professional practice?

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