Teacher motivation and skills for professional development

1.

Teacher motivation and skills
for professional development
prepared by:
Irina Kudryavtseva
Victoria Bolmanenkova
group 102

2.

Teacher professional development
(PD)
• an essential feature of
instructional interventions in
general
• for the improvement of
students’ learning and
achievement in particular

3.

In general, how motivated are you, personally,
to participate in PD activities?
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Not at all (0)
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Extremly (6)

4.

Types of motivation
• intrinsic
• extrinsic
= love
= money
In both work and life, you will
come across people who are
motivated by both factors, and
most often by a mixture of the
two.

5.

Basic characteristics of tasks
that lead to boredom at work
• Quantitative underload
• Qualitative underload
• Qualitative overload

6.

In general, how would you rate your experiences with
PD during the current school trimester?

7.

Skills needed for teaching
As well as subject knowledge, there are some other, more general qualities that
teachers need:
Enjoy communicating your
understanding to others
Have confidence
Have great organizational skills
Work effectively in groups
Be able to deal with conflict
Motivate your students to do their
best
Empathize with your students
Give feedback

8.

Teachers with experience
Young teachers
Enjoy communicating your understanding to others
Have confidence
Have great organizational skills
Work effectively in groups
Be able to deal with conflict
Motivate your students to do their best
Empathize with your students
Give feedback
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9.

• participation was a positive
rather than a negative
experience
• was judged to be useful for
increasing their teaching
effectiveness
• made teachers more
motivated to participate in
PD in the future

10.

Thank you for your
attention!