WCSPR25261 Becoming and Developing as a Teacher Educator/Tutor (Face to Face)

Are you interested in becoming a teacher educator/Tutor with West Cork Education Support Centre ?

The role of the teacher educator is an exciting and privileged one requiring a host of bespoke skills.

This three hour workshop is designed for those interested in developing and working as teacher educators in the area of Continuing Professional Development. Practical and research-based guidance will root the work of the teacher educator in the principles of adult learning and more specifically in the professional learning needs of teachers and how they learn best. Consequently participants will explore the

• Key skills of the teacher educator
• Characteristics of quality CPD provision (design and facilitation)
• Key strategies and optimal environments to enable teacher learning
• Pedagogies for teacher learning with practical examples of activities
• Hallmarks of effective presentation and facilitation

The workshop allows  for dynamic discussion generated by  key  insights from experience and the research

This programme is  ideal for primary and post primary teachers who are:

• considering creating content for teacher CPD
• considering delivering CPD to teachers through their local Education Centre or in -house at school.
• already involved in the above but would like to learn more.

Dr. Ciara O’Donnell is the former National Director of the Professional Development Service for Teachers (PDST), a position she held for 9 years (2013 - 2022). She began her career as a primary school teacher in a West Dublin DEIS school during which she spent six years as the Home School Community Liaison Co-ordinator.  Ciara has worked in the area of teacher education for over twenty years holding a number of senior leadership positions with responsibility for curriculum, DEIS, school leadership, professional development policy, research and design. Ciara now works as an independent education consultant specialising in teacher education, curriculum and school leadership while also working as a tutor with Maynooth University. Her research exploring the secondment of teachers to teacher education which has been presented nationally and internationally has resulted in her evidenced based programme for aspiring and developing teacher educators “Becoming and Developing as a Teacher Educator”

Listen to this podcast where Ciara discusses the programme here