PSLE7006 Spring 2019: Personal Development for Leader Project

This project, focusing on personal development for leaders, explores the multifaceted roles and responsibilities of teachers within an organization, emphasizing their impact on the institution's structure, function, and overall success. The assignment delves into the concept of professionalism in teaching, analyzing it through various perspectives including traditional, conflict theory, neo-liberal, and critical perspectives. It highlights the essential attributes and skills of effective teachers, such as enthusiasm, leadership, organizational abilities, and interpersonal skills, while also examining their roles in planning, implementation, assessment, and administration. Furthermore, the project investigates the influence of teachers on their organizations, emphasizing their contribution to productivity, student growth, and the overall educational environment. Finally, the project addresses professional development, including various models and their application to teachers' needs, while incorporating relevant references and appendices to support the findings.

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Table of Contents
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................2
Review of teacher –................................................................................................................2
Roles and responsibilities of a teacher –................................................................................5
Impact of teachers on their organizations –...........................................................................6
Task 2.........................................................................................................................................7
Transferable skills which teachers have –..............................................................................7
Practices, knowledge and general skills of teacher which they can use effectively within
workplace setting –................................................................................................................9
Task 3.......................................................................................................................................13
Professional Development –................................................................................................13
Models of professional development –................................................................................14
References................................................................................................................................20
Appendices 1 –.........................................................................................................................24

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Task 1
Review of teacher –
1. In the world of technology and science, education is determines the level of welfare,
prosperity and security of an individual. While quality of education depends on the
various factors such as teaching- learning material, method of teaching, infrastructure,
and curriculum and education technology. Out of these factors, teaching is important
factor for education of acceptable quality. Teacher is a person who helps to the others
in acquiring knowledge, skills, values and competences. They are directly responsible
to operationalize education process, set intimate contract with learners and train and
motivate them in various ways (Carl, 2009). Teacher also needs initial training and
education of reasonable quality and length. Main resource of an education system is
teacher. They have various essential roles and responsibilities which are required in
changing environment or changing social needs. So, needs of professional
development of teachers continuously develop and change as per changing
expectations related to the increasing quality of education, changing in the social
needs, changing technology and science, change in the population of student and
technologies effect on the learning.
2. Concept of professionalism in teaching can be divided in four structures. These are:
 Traditional – Traditional structure of professionalism are based on occupations
like law (Demirkasimoglu, 2010). These professions have high level of
autonomy but also high pay and high status. Because of this teaching
profession are accepted as quasi professional. There are various aspects of
teaching which can be co-relating with traditional structure of professional.
Teachers provide services to the student and require huge skills and
knowledge and are driven through moral imperative. However, as an
occupation teaching is different from traditional professions because they have
more control of the organization as compare to doctors and lawyers. Within
teaching there is no distance between practitioner and client due to the
continue interaction between clients and practitioner, so there is close
relationship between them. As per the traditional structure, teaching is a high
status profession than other professions such as doctors and lawyer. So, within
teaching due to direct interaction and relationship with students, teacher
consider in fully traditional structure (Rozas and Klein, 2010).

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 Conflict Theory – This is another structure or view for the concept of
professionalism in teaching. Knowledge is not enough which makes a high
status profession but value of the knowledge or skills to the organization is
also necessary for high status professions. This theory states that social
relationships of different groups are built upon exploitation and power.
Professionalism in teaching as a form of control of state with teachers can be
direct or indirect rule by state such as economic, political, technological, social
and cultural circumstances determined. Obviously, teaching profession is to be
of value for student as well as the organization. They have the chance or
opportunity to enhance or develop the academic ability and the success and
achievement of their students and also have chance to developed themselves
as people. Teachers have to ensure that groups within the society should be
restricted and proper maintaining of structure of the society (Teachers’
standards, 2011).
 Neo- Liberal – This approach has significantly shifted to professional’s role.
So, the regulation of professionalism in teaching has shifted from autonomy as
a licenced form to a regulated autonomy in form of tightly controlled
autonomy (Ball, 2012). This structure led to develop a new professional along
with various different values of the professional (Patrick, 2013).
 Critical Perspectives – This is the recent structure for the concept of
professionalism in teaching. This perspective states that we rethink
professionalism relating to what we do and how we do rather than acquired
only high status professions.
3. Attributes and skills of a good teacher –
 Enthusiasm: A good teacher should be enthusiastic towards their job and
encourages their students to learn more and to share the same passion as
teachers do and give them more knowledge as they have (Stronge, 2009).
 Leadership: A great teacher has the ability to guide and lead their students in
proper manner. They can manage different character of students or various
different personalities of their students which includes misbehaving by their
students. They guide them in right way or direction. Leadership plays an
essential role in achieving their objectives or goals. So, teacher should be good
leader and guider for their students (Khoshhal and Guraya, 2016).

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 Organization: Teachers have to do various task such as planning, marketing
and managing the organization. So, they require organization skills too for
achieving their goals or objectives. So, it will help them in completing their
task timely.
 Respectful: A good teacher should be respectful towards their students. So,
student can openly communicate about their issues or problems and also share
their suggestions and opinions to their teacher. So, it will also help in creating
good environment within the organization (Azer, 2014).
 Multitasking: A good teacher has skills of multitasking. They can do more
than one task at the same time such as managing their class as well as teaching
them with proper planning system.
 Teamwork: They have an ability to work individually as well as in the team.
They have to make their students as they feel such as they are part of the team.
They must have relationship with other teachers which help them in solving
problems and also helps in creating plans relating to the overall teaching
system (Saphier, 2017).
 Ability to Teach: They need to have instructive skills, creative skills, their own
style of teaching and way of explaining any concept which students can be
understand easily.
 Communication & Interpersonal skills: Teachers must have good
communication skills and interpersonal skills. They should be able to interact
with all people that include different age group, parents and managers and
understand their different point of views (Sutoliffe, 2013).
 Adaptability: They need to handle their students in each circumstances and
able to give solutions for the problem of their students.
 Creativity: Teacher needs creativity to developing interest for the students.
This can be done through various activities such as role play, games and other
fun related activities (Jenkins, 2016).
 Patience & Confidence: While teaching, patience is necessary for handling the
class. Confidence is also essential attribute for a good teacher.
 Emotional Intelligence: A great teacher has an ability to control their emotion
and also has ability to understand the emotions of their students.

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 Critical Thinking: Due to number of different problems, teacher should have
critical thinking for solving those problems, conflicts among students and
other personal issues relating to their students (Banner and Cannon, 2017).
Roles and responsibilities of a teacher –
Teacher can play their role within their teaching profession in various ways as at planning
stage, teacher plays an important role in achieiving their goals. They have to prepare and
make proper plan as how they will teach to their students and how they will increase the
growth of the students. They work together with other teacher to gain new knowledge, adopt
new concepts and philosophies for teaching and planning teaching at grade level for
improving the experience of learning. Besides teaching, teachers are implementers of
learning and providing students with the tools and material which be necessary for their
learning. Teachers work one to one pupil or with small number of group too. They also play a
role of assessors as they have to evaluate skills of their students through formal and informal
assessments and then assigning marks to them. During interaction with pupils, teacher plays a
vital role such as role of a therapist, parents, and a nutritionist. Teachers must be good leader
and have all leadership qualities. A teacher can build up self- esteem of students and also tear
down self-esteem of students (Roles and Responsibilities for Teacher in the Classroom,
2017). They have to able to share their knowledge to another and deliver it with clarity of
information. To listen and solve the student’s issues or problem, respecting their suggestions
or views and try to know their needs. A teacher also act as a guide and councillor and offer
support and help to their students where they can (Keller, 2011). Teacher is also responsible
towards administration department. They are responsible for the initial enrolment and the
administration which is required within the duration of the course. A teacher is also an
information provider to the learners, so their responsibilities is to provide, develop and
produce learning and teaching material appropriate for a range of purposes, context and target
audience. Teacher has to treat their students equally; it means there are no difference with
regards to age, gender, caste and the religion of their students. Teacher have to manage all
things such as managing the group or students, managing various activities while teaching as
well as other curricular activities and also managing the learning (Allen, 2014). During
training, teacher plays a role of Assessor. Learners will have various different learning needs,
so they need to accommodate their needs. So, assessment skills will help them to promote
quality, inclusion and diversity. This helps in increasing the motivation level to the teacher as
well as the learners. They have to assessing changing or varying leadership styles within a

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group and also provide motivation to the learners. This will help in identifying numerous
teaching methods that could be useful in teaching. Teachers are also responsible for maintain
healthy and safe environment within the workplace as per the Health and Safety Work Act,
1974 and they are responsible for safety needs for their learners as per Maslow’s hierarchy
needs theory of motivation. So, it will help them in identifying any hazards which would
hinder the environment as well as learning (Kamen, 2012).
Impact of teachers on their organizations –
Teacher plays an important role in achieving the goals of their organization. Without teacher,
organizations relating to the educational institutions can not able to survive for a longer
period of time. They can impact the organization in various ways or manner such as origin of
organization, structure, interaction, functions and outside drivers. They play a crucial role in
the higher productivity of the organization. Because they encourage students towards gaining
knowledge and learning, enhancing their skills, proper methods of teaching, set performance
goals, makes connection with their students as well as their parents and provide other
knowledge to the students (Palmer, 2009). Teacher can highly impact their organization
because everything which does by teacher is to help for their students as well as the
organization. Due to the various qualities which have the teachers, they are the key for the
success of the organization and impacts positively on the organization. Qualities such as
communications skills, patience, positivity, organization skills, planning, lot of knowledge,
confidence, leadership skills, enthusiasm, team management, ability to do multitasking,
creativity and interpersonal skills (Alejandro and David, 2018). They help the organization in
increasing the number of students or learners. So, it will automatically help in increasing
productivity, performance and the achieving their goals. For any educational organization or
institutes, teacher is necessary for developing and starting and origin of the organization.
Without teachers, no organization or institutions related to education will be survived for
certain period of time (Sirotnik and Oakes, 2012). Teacher helps in maintaining or creating
positive, safe and healthy working environment within an organization. So, this will also
helpful in the productivity of the organization. They make connections with pupils which
include students, teacher and other learners. So, it will impact the organization in increasing
their customers and also helps in increasing the performance and productivity of the
organization. Organization functions are planning, organizing, staffing, directing and the
controlling. So, teacher helps in performing the functions of the organization such as
planning and organizing. Teacher play a vital role in planning process of the organization

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because it is the role of teacher to do proper planning while teaching and managing their
students and organizing skills also needs for an effective teacher for achieving their goals
related to the organization. Role of teacher also impact on the structure of the organization
and helps the organization in creating structure with the satisfaction of both teacher as well as
students. So, teacher can impact positively on the organization (Meyers, Paul and Kirkland,
2009).
Task 2
Transferable skills which teachers have –
1. Communication and presentation skills: It is most important skills of teacher which is
transferable. Presenting any information effectively and clearly is an essential skill to
get your opinion or message across. Presentation skill as well as good communication
skill is essential for a great teacher. It helps the teacher in achieving their goals or
objectives. Presentation skills include ability to present information in good manner
and organizing in proper way. Communication skills are various types such as oral
communication, visual communication, written communication, verbal
communication and non- verbal communication. I have communication and
presentation skills which is transferable, as I can communicate effectively with my
learners.
2. Interpersonal skills: Interpersonal skill is another transferable skill of teacher. These
skills are used to understand what can be motivates to the students and how they can
use their knowledge and practices for achieving their objectives. Interpersonal skills
includes various skill which are necessary for a great teacher too such as self-
confidence, strong work ethic, open to give feedback to others, managing or maintain
good relationship with their learners, appreciated to the students, and showing the
positive attitude even when there is negative situation comes (Hayes, 2013).
3. Active Listening: It is another skill which I have which can be transferable. I listen
properly to the students and giving full attention to what students or learners are
saying, taking time to understand that what are the issues or problems of their students
and does not interrupting at wrong or inappropriate times. Active listening involves
listening to others with all senses. It includes skills such as pay attention to others,
show to the other that you are listening, give or provide feedback, defer judgement
and respond to others appropriately. Active listening is a one transferable skill which

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can be developed and acquired with practice. If teacher have an active listening skills
then they must be patience (Stollhans, 2016).
4. Teamwork skills: I have skill of good teamwork management which is necessary in
managing our classroom. Teamwork is an important skill for every organization in
achieving the objective of the organization. It includes various other skills such as
ability to listening other carefully, delegation towards their work, show respect
towards others, feel their students that they are also part of the team, helpful and
supportive to the students and creating and maintaining good or healthy working
environment or culture within an organization (Kluge, 2014).
5. Accountability: Accountability is another transferable skill which teachers have. Due
to the responsibilities of whole classroom, so my students help in increasing level of
accountability. Accountability refers as assumption and acknowledgement of
responsibility for decisions, actions and various policies which includes
implementation, administration and governance within the role of teacher (Fletcher,
2018).
6. Leadership skills: For an effective teacher, they must me good leader or guider. I have
an ability to lead or guide the whole class or all students with different character.
Leadership skills which have the teacher are another transferable skill of a teacher. It
includes various other skills such as good communication skills, positive attitude
towards their team, creativity, responsibility, motivate to team and trustworthiness
towards their team or their students (Levin and Schrum, 2017).
7. Adaptability: I have the skills of adaptability which is also transferable skill as I can
adapt to working in new environment with different age groups of students in various
subjects, so because of this they become more flexible and more adaptable.
Adaptability refers as when people easily rely or adapt flexible or changing job
descriptions and adjust themselves in different role quickly. Teacher have an ability to
adapt to changing environment and changing situations and expectations, so it will
helps them in increasing their value towards their organization.
8. Numeracy: It is also another important transferable skill of teacher. Numeracy refers
as the ability to apply or to reason simple numerical concepts. Basic numeracy skills
include fundamental arithmetic which includes addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division. There are various other numeracy skills such as knowledge of figures
and numbers, proper understanding of the relationship between numbers, how to

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interpret mathematical information, ability to organize information, logical thinking
and data analysis and measurement skills (Chadha and Nicholls, 2009).
9. Complex Problem Solving: I have an ability to solve complex problems because of
experience and huge knowledge in my subject as I identify complex problems then
reviewing various information related to that problem for evaluate and develop
options and then implement solutions. It is one of the important skills for a teacher
because it helps the people to make huge difference to their career and it also helps
them in achieving their goals and achieving success. Problem solving skills includes
mental skill, creative skills, analytical skills and logical skills. So, these skills which
teachers have can be transferable (Appleby, Herting and Schullo, 2018).
10. Digital skills: Digital skill refer as ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share and create
material or content through internet or information technologies. It includes various
other skills such as social media, search engine marketing, content marketing,
analytical skill and strategy and planning.
11. Coordination: Coordination is another transferable skill which has the teachers. I can
easily coordinate so many things at the same period of time in my classroom as well
as organization. Coordination includes the ability to organise own work as well as to
link or coordinate it with the overall working within the organization. For
coordination, there are various skills which needs for a teacher such as managing and
organizing skills, ability to follow up tasks and ability to balance, maintain and restore
workflow (McKeough, Lupart and Marini, 2010).
12. Diagnostic Tests: Teachers have diagnostic skill tests which are transferable skills. It
includes interpreting, screening, placing, identification of needs and then diagnosing.
13. Professional, practical and academic skills: I have professional, practical and
academic skill which is another transferable skill. Professional, practical and
academic skills include communication skill, organization skill, networking and
interaction with others, awareness, leadership skills and presentation skills (Assiter,
2017).
Practices, knowledge and general skills of teacher which they can use effectively within
workplace setting –
National Occupation Standard related to teacher (National Occupational Standards, 2019) –

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 The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has
developed “Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation” (NAEYC,
2009).
 The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has a set of “Early
Childhood Generalist Standards” which is applied for a teacher who teaches the
students from ages 3 to 8 (NBPTS, 2012).
 The Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) of the Council
of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) offers “Model Core Teaching Standards” for
K-12 teachers (CCSSO, 2011).
 The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children has
issued “Recommended Practices in Early Childhood Special Education/ Early
Intervention (DEC, 2014).
So, according to above National Occupational Standards (Watkinson, 2014), teachers have
the following practices, general skills and knowledge which they can use effectively within
their organization or workplace settings:
1. I communicate effectively with my students and during the presentation of practical
work in classroom, so this will help in increasing the performance of the organization.
2. Knowledge of the development of science, student development which includes
cognitive development, specific content skills and knowledge such as literacy and
language, mathematics, science, technology, engineering, social studies an darts.,
general competencies of learning and physical development and health.
3. Ability to maintaining or establishing or creating interaction and relationship with the
students which are nurturing and also use favourable language.
4. Ability to manage and create effective or healthy learning environment within the
workplace or an organization. It includes various things such as classroom
management, physical space, numerous activities and material management.
5. Ability to continuously or consistently develop productive routines, maintain proper
planning and schedules, make concepts or transitions simple or brief, which will be
productive for the students as well as the organization. So, it will help them in
increasing predictability or productivity and opportunities of teach (Savage, 2014).
6. Ability to use a repertory of caregiving and instructional strategies and practices and
also implementing validated curricula which help the students to facilitate learning
and development in all subjects which helps them in the development of their career.

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7. Ability to set or make appropriate or proper individualized objectives or goals which
helps their students in increasing their learning and development.
8. Ability to use learning trajectories, it means teacher have a deep understanding and
knowledge of the content and understanding of the way how their students think and
learn about any information and content which is provided by their teacher, they also
have an ability to employ and design instructional curricula, tasks and other activities
which can effectively promote learning and development of their students and it will
also useful for the benefit of the organization (Knowledge and competencies, 2015).
9. Ability to employ, select and interpret strategies and tools for a portfolio of both
informal and formal assessment, to use the result from that assessment of their
students in understanding and development of their students and also able to
determine whether needs of the students are being met or whether they are satisfied or
not. It helps the organization in increasing the number of students, increase
productivity and achieving their goals.
10. Ability to leverage & integrated different types of technologies in instructional
practices and curricula to promote the learning of their students.
11. Ability to develop or promote self- regulation and social development while reducing
or mitigating challenging behaviours in that way which reflect an understanding of
multiple biological and factors related to the environment which affect behaviour of
both students as well as the organization.
12. Teachers have an ability to recognize the effects of factors such as poverty, parental
depression, trauma and experience of violence in the community or home which
affect the learning and development of the students.
13. Teachers are working with the diverse groups of students which have different
character. Due to this they have an ability to advance the development of the students
and their learning, which belong to different background in term of their family
structure, age, race, culture, religion, socioeconomic status and diverse language of
the students.
14. Teachers have an ability to connect, interact and communicate with the families of
their students. So, it will help their organization in creating effective environment
within an organization and use in increasing productivity and achieving their goals
(Prozesky, 2009).
15. Teacher are working effectively towards their students and organization and working
equitably with their students or learners whose comes from diverse backgrounds such