TEACHER IDENTITY
Live your values!
Knowing who you are as a teacher is not an easy question – but one worth exploring. Most of us find our ways to teaching identities without really knowing where we’ve arrived or how we’ve gotten there.
Clarifying and arguing pedagogical values and ideals, however, is important for students in teacher education programs. It allows them to develop their vision of “good” teaching, and thus their daily interactions with students.
In this module we hope to assist you on discovering your teacher identity in a conscious and deliberate way in order to enable you to put together a teaching persona that allows the teacher to thrive, students to learn, and the content to be communicated effectively.
In this module, you will …
In this module, you will …
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- learn how to identify which pedagogical values are a priority for you in being a teacher and what underlies them,
- get an idea about how you can put these values into practice as a teacher, and
- practice how you can introduce yourself as a teacher in a congruent way.
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- learn how to identify which pedagogical values are a priority for you in being a teacher and what underlies them,
- get an idea about how you can put these values into practice as a teacher, and
- practice how you can introduce yourself as a teacher in a congruent way.
How to work on this Learning Module – Instructions
How to work on this Learning Module – Instructions
Whether you are working on this module individually or in a group, you will encounter several reflection and transfer questions.
This icon marks activities and tasks for individual learners.
For individual learners, we recommend
- to find a designated space where you collect your key ideas and findings: a notebook, a digital tool (i.e. Padlet, Miro, OneNote, …), etc. (in addition to your Action Plan (read below)).
- if you know of a colleague who completed the same modules like you, to find an opportunity to meet up and share your results (or Action Plans (read below)) with each other.
This icon marks activities and tasks for groups.
For groups, we recommend
- to set up an Idea Hub – for example, a white board, a poster, a table, a digital pinboard (i.e. Padlet, Miro), where you collect key ideas and findings. Decide for yourselves whether, after completing the module, the Idea Hub is meant for your group’s eyes only or if you would like to share or even present your work and experience (e.g. in the teacher’s lounge, during a conference, etc.).
- in addition to each learner’s individual Action Plan, to consider setting up a Group Action Plan which can be added to the aforementioned Idea Hub.
This icon marks an Action Plan activity to connect ideas with your own context in your personal Teacher Well-being Action Plan (see download link below).
Download: Action Plan template „Teacher Identity“
Download: Action Plan template „Teacher Identity“
Download your template for the Action Plan „Teacher Identity“ here.
Whenever you encounter an „Action Plan“ icon in this module,
- follow the instructions and fill in the corresponding section in your Action Plan.
- You do not need to have all the answers right away – the plan is meant to evolve with your learning!
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