Belgium - Henallux Namur

RETAIN - Final conference - April 2016 HENALLUX - Namur - Belgium

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• Activities carried out• Learnt?• Promoting factors• Challenges• Good practice• Ideas for recommendations


Activities carried out

• Work with schools (4 schools – lower secondary)

• Work with last year students / newly qualified teachers

• Work with individuals



• 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



• 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


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


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


Examples – game Motus

Before studying

Before studying AND after some time in the job

After some time in the job


SWOT analysis

Identify and analyse one’s strengths and weaknesses and the opportunities and threats of a given situation

Strengths Opportunities

Weaknesses Threats


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


Inclusion Compass

Also implies looking at a given situation from different perspectives and in a global way.


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


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


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


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.


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)


Good practice

- Different schools – different programmes- More or less elaborated- More or less time-consuming - Different subjects / pedagogical aspects- Documents / meetings- Individual / group


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


Any questions?


Thank you for your attention!

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