Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development (Apr 2009)

Classroom Research and Professional Development

  • Omaira Vergara Luján,
  • Fanny Hernández Gaviria,
  • Rosalba Cárdenas Ramos

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 169 – 191

Abstract

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This article intends to share the experience of a group of teachers in the Classroom Research Seminar of the Teacher Development Program in English carried out at Universidad del Valle, Cali, from January to June, 2007. The seminar was part of a high-level in-service program for teachers of English of a network of private educational institutions. We would like to share the highlights and difficulties of the experience. We will start with the general framework of the program and the concept of professional development that underlies it. Next we will focus on the classroom research seminar, its objectives, methodology and results. Finally we share the voices of some of the participants, who talk about the influence this seminar had on their professional development and daily work.

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