1. Belgium
HENALLUX - Namur
• Activities carried out
• Learnt?
• Promoting factors
• Challenges
• Good practice
• Ideas for recommendations
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2. Activities carried out
• Work with schools (4 schools – lower
secondary)
• Work with last year students / newly qualified
teachers
• Work with individuals
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. Pedagogical relationship
(S. Biémar)
Describe, discuss and analyse a good / bad pedagogical
relationship one has experienced
Too distant Too close
Too authoritarian Too flexible
Too much centred Too much
on content centred on
pupils’s interests
Too much centred Too much centred
on his own on the different
methodology learning styles of the
pupils
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6. 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
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7. Examples – game Motus
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Before studying
Before studying
AND after some
time in the job
After some time
in the job
8. SWOT analysis
Identify and analyse one’s strengths and
weaknesses and the opportunities and threats
of a given situation
Strengths Opportunities
Weaknesses Threats
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9. BONO’s hats
Looking 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
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10. Inclusion Compass
Also implies looking at a given situation from
different perspectives and in a global way.
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11. 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
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12. 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
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13. 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
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14. 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.
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15. 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)
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16. Good practice
- Different schools – different programmes
- More or less elaborated
- More or less time-consuming
- Different subjects / pedagogical aspects
- Documents / meetings
- Individual / group
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17. 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
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