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* * * * * * * THE GARDENER’S TOOLBOXHow a foreign language teacher can develop professional competences in the light of the European profile English for the future British Council ELT Conference Milan, 22 March 2011 Luisanna Paggiaro “images- and the metaphors that help identify them- far from trivializing the search for alternative approaches, offer teacher educators a valuable tool: they are a powerful- perhaps the most powerful- force for change, and should be of critical interest to those whose business is educational change” Scott Thornbury, 1991 My butterfly Decorate the butterfly below, with words and colours to represent the conditions that will help you develop into the teacher butterfly you would like to become…. I remembered one morning when I discovered a cocoon in the bark of a tree, just as the butterfly was making a hole in its case and preparing to come out. I waited a while, but it was too long appearing and I was impatient. I bent over it and breathed on it to warm it. I warmed it as quickly as I could and the miracle began to happen before my eyes, faster than life. The case opened, the butterly started slowly crawling out…. Kazantzakis, N. (1952) Zorba the Greek, London, faber and Faber REFLECTIVE PROCESSES Think about the way that you normally reflect on your teaching practice and give your personal response: Do you ever reflect on aspects of your school training? Yes/ No When do you usually do this? Immediately after the lesson/when you go home/ at some other time Is this a private activity or do you share your thoughts/feelings with anyone? How long does this process last, roughly? Do you have any systematic way of reviewing the lessons? Checklists/notes/recordings Would you say the time you spend in this way is productive or unproductive? TEACHER’S IDENTITY A socio-cultural perspective on teacher-learning posits a central aspect of this process as the reshaping of identity and identities within the social interaction of the classroom