Professional Competences
Professional Competences
Professional competence is the cluster of values, knowledge, and skills that a teacher demonstrates in practice. For a reflective practitioner, competence is not a fixed checklist. It develops across a career, deepens through reflection, and rests on the right mental attitude. This chapter walks through the three broad headings of competence, the layers and dimensions of development, the provisional model, the attitudes Dewey identified as necessary for reflective thought, and the professional development journal as a working tool.
Three headings of professional competence: values, knowledge, and skills, with the core teacher values
What sits inside each heading: planning and leading, teaching and learning, and dimensions of development
The four core components plus meta-competences, with constituents and outcomes
Dewey’s three attitudes: open-mindedness, responsibility, and whole-heartedness
What the journal is, how to use it, and the Driscoll-Teh framework: what, so what, now what
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