From Trainee to Teacher - Reflective Practice for Novice Teachers - Thomas S.C. Farrell
'You Put your Personal Stamp on It': Reflecting on Teaching Style
From Trainee to Teacher - Reflective Practice for Novice Teachers - Thomas S.C. Farrell
Thomas S.C. Farrell [+]
Brock University
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Thomas S.C. Farrell is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University, Canada. His professional interests include Reflective Practice, and Language Teacher Education & Development. He has published widely and has presented at major conferences worldwide on these topics. His webpage is: www.reflectiveinquiry.ca
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Chapter 8 explores the novice teachers’ perceptions of their role identities during their first semester and which of these may have been assigned by others and which they have taken on themselves. Reflecting on teacher role identity allows language educators a useful lens into the who of teaching and how teachers construct and reconstruct their views of their roles as language teachers and themselves in relation to their peers and their context. The chapter outlines and discuses 14 main professional role identities emerged from the group discussions and these were further placed into three main clusters.