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RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
BelgiumHENALLUX - Namur
• Activities carried out• Learnt?• Promoting factors• Challenges• Good practice• Ideas for recommendations
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Activities carried out
• Work with schools (4 schools – lower secondary)
• Work with last year students / newly qualified teachers
• Work with individuals
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Activities carried out
• Discussions with heads of schools• Discussions / workshops with novice and
senior teachers (mixed group)• Discussions with staff members in charge of
the integration / inclusion of novice teachers
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Activities carried out
• Professional identity + Collaboration with the external world
• Pedagogical relationship (S. Biémar – grid)• Evolution professional identity (Motus – pictures)• SWOT analysis• Bono’s thinking hats• Inclusion Compass
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Pedagogical relationship (S. Biémar)
Describe, discuss and analyse a good / bad pedagogical relationship one has experienced
Too distant Too closeToo authoritarian Too flexibleToo much centred Too muchon content centred on pupils’s interestsToo much centred Too much centredon his own on the differentmethodology learning styles of the
pupils
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Professional identity – evolution (game – MOTUS)Choosing pictures about one’s representations of the teacher profession
- before starting the studies- at the end of the studies- after some time working as a teacher
Discussion about the evolution, the reasons for these changes
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Examples – game Motus
Before studying
Before studying AND after some time in the job
After some time in the job
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
SWOT analysis
Identify and analyse one’s strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats of a given situation
Strengths Opportunities
Weaknesses Threats
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
BONO’s hatsLooking at a given situation from different perspectives - White hat – information - facts - Yellow hat – positive aspects - benefits - Black hat – devil’s advocate - Red hat – feelings - emotions - Green hat - creativity – possibilities - alternatives - Blue hat – control process – checking that the guidelines are observed
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Inclusion Compass
Also implies looking at a given situation from different perspectives and in a global way.
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Learnt?
• Teachers have few opportunities to discuss about their profession / professional identity
• Teachers are looking for good practice / examples
• (De)motivation is not a question of being novice / senior, even though senior teachers tend to stay in the job
• (De)motivation is not a question of age
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Learnt?
• Importance of personal experience• Importance of individual differences• Importance of emotions• Importance of the external world• Importance of working on the long term (one
meeting is not enough)• Importance of collaboration• Combination of tools
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Promoting factors
• Schools already involved in a reflection about how to integrate / include novice teachers
• Heads of school interested in the project, in learning from a European perspective
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Challenges• TIME
– Overload of work for teachers (not involving teaching)– Meetings with teachers
• The importance of the EXTERNAL WORLD (political decisions – other stakeholders in education and the communication with them)
• CHANGES – wish for security / reluctance / inevitability
• Wish for EXAMPLES / GOOD PRACTICE
• Teachers often feel PERSONALLY INVOLVED – make the difference between « profession » and « person » - Introspection is difficult.
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Challenges
• Different kinds of novice teachers • Young teachers fresh out of initial training• Teachers not yet qualified• Teachers coming back after some time in other
positions• Teachers teaching their qualification (vocational schools
– subjects)
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Good practice
- Different schools – different programmes- More or less elaborated- More or less time-consuming - Different subjects / pedagogical aspects- Documents / meetings- Individual / group
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Ideas for recommendations
• Provide examples of good practice (from a European perspective)
• Encourage collaboration• Encourage whole school policy• Encourage both in the subjects taught and
pedagogical support• Life-long learning – build bridges between pre-
and in-service learning
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Any questions?
RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium
Thank you for your attention!