The Foundation of Teaching and Learning

PROJECT 1 ESSAY ON
THE FOUNDATION OF
TEACHING AND
LEARNING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Teaching identify and its importance...........................................................................................3
Quality teaching aspects .............................................................................................................4
The current issues that contribute to teachers work and professionalism....................................5
The interrelationship between teaching identity and quality teaching.........................................5
Professional Standards for Teachers APST Teacher Identity....................................................6
Relation between the Quality teaching and teaching identity......................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Teacher identify refers to the commitments, beliefs and values an individual embrace
towards being a teacher and to have a specific type or characteristic of teacher. For professional
development and for encouraging holistic growth of learners it is important that professionals in
teaching field must understand the teaching identity and its impact upon the professional
outcomes. The essay will discuss the significance and ways of developing this identifies and how
they affect the curriculum outcomes and quality of teaching. It will also analyse the challenges
faced by teaching professionals in the current scenario.
MAIN BODY
Teaching identify and its importance
Teaching professionals tend to work with two domains. The first domain is visible and
include activities like assessment or material design and classroom interaction. The second
domain is invisible and consist of personal phenomenon such as expectations, beliefs or
cognition. The practice and community is critical in professional identity and thus the act or
feeling of belonging to teaching community encourages negotiation and direct interaction in
classrooms (Fadale and Powell, 2017) . Teaching identity may encompass both changes as well
as restraints as teachers gain professional knowledge and experience. The identity is also
influenced by the social and political scenario in which teachers work.
For establishing the teaching identity professionals used to consider three main factors.
The first factor is personal attribute such as experience of individual as learner or teaching
experience in pre professional phase. These aspects influenced the way in which one associate
themselves with teaching profession. The second factor is classroom factor which includes
curriculum, teaching planning and classroom goals. The third element is known as external
discourses associated with teaching which can be related with theory or politics in which
teachers were embedded. Thus the process of developing an identity varies from one personal to
other and is a complex process (Walters, Robinson and Walters, 2019). The professional as well
as personal knowledge of pre service individual helps them to create a sense of being teacher.