Create your own personal
development plan for 2017
Duncan Foord,
Barcelona November 2016
Inner game theory
In every human endeavour there are two arenas of engagement: the outer
and the inner.
The outer game is played on an external arena to overcome external
obstacles to reach an external goal.
The inner game takes place within the mind of the player and is played
against such obstacles as fear, self-doubt, lapses in focus, and limiting
concepts or assumptions. The inner game is played to overcome the selfimposed obstacles that prevent an individual or team from accessing
their full potential.
Timothy Gallwey
Have you done it?
If you have done it, what would you give it
out of 10 as a development activity and
why?
If not why not? What are the potential
benefits?
Have you done it?
If you have done it, what would you give it out of 10 as a development
activity and why?
If not why not? What are the potential benefits?
1. Learn another language
2. Read a professional journal/book
about ELT
3. Keep a teaching diary
4. Get feedback from my students
5. Try out a new
approach/technique
6. Record my students
7. Video myself teaching
8. Have tutorials with my students
9. Observe a colleague teach
10. Be observed by a colleague
11. Share teaching a lesson with a
colleague
12. Act as a mentor/coach
13. Find a mentor /coach
14. Publish a teaching blog
15. Do some action research
16. Attend a workshop
17. Attend a teaching conference
18. Do a further teaching qualifiaction
19. Do a teacher development course
20. Change job
21. Teach a new level/ type of course
22. Write an article for publication
23. Write a book
24. Lead a workshop
25. Other?
Make a plan
Tell someone about it
Set a deadline
Sample development plan
Goal
Dates/
deadlines?
People involved
Notes/
outcomes
Observe 2 teachers and
be observed by 2
teachers
End of Dec
Ask Dolores and
Lucy?
Agree how we will
do the observation
and dates
Get feedback from my
students
Week of 21st
Jan
Read
“The Developing
Teacher”
In February
Monday and
Wednesday
afternoons
Try with 2
classes,My B1 (25th
May) and B2 (26th
May)
Just me!
Or try to get Bert to
read it too so we can
talk about it.
Use the Group
Feedback activity
from Duncan’s
book
Book club?
continue with
more people
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