a) What’s a teacher like: Personal accounts about oneself as a teacher

b) Group discussion of personal accounts in the light of a prepared grid:

Grid for analysis of teachers’ personal accounts:

• teacher as a learner
• teacher as a researcher
• teaching as reflecting
• teaching as supporting
• teaching as finding out what students think, experience, feel
• teaching as interacting with, and responding to, students
• teaching as working with other teachers in collaborative ways
• teaching as actively participating to the construction of a better life for one’s country and all its members

c) Adult learning and teacher development: Bell & Gilbert’s model of social,personal and professional development ( Bell & Gilbert’s model of Teacher Development)

d) A three dimensional model of learning: Competences – skills – motivation