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The new career for teachers which is currently developing, encourages responsibility for self-development. The learning needed for this new career focuses on personal competencies, which make teachers highly effective. This book outlines personality and identity, motivation and reward strategies, the emotions of leadership and the values and ethics which underpin professional integrity. Using a practical but evidence-based approach, the author outlines how to develop creativity, assertiveness and emotional intelligence using techniques such as neuro-linguistic programming to model excellence. The author shows how teachers can use work on effective people to develop their own performance and
Career Development and Development as a Professional
Career Development and Development as a Professional
The Changing Context
In the 1980s career planning was apparently straightforward. Organizations recruited those with potential and, through careful selection, ensured they had commitment. They provided training and management development schemes as a result of which the talented and loyal were promoted and prepared to train others, because there was no fear of redundancy. It was possible for employees to plan family lives, to anticipate changes of location and the timing of progress up the hierarchy. All apparently benefited from this long, stable career ladder.
In contrast, now jobs are scarcer and more precarious, with the world changing at an unprecedented rate, all employees need to be resilient, flexible and capable of adjusting their ...
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