Partner Professional Dialogue

Now, that I have done the activity related with the Professional dialogue, I am inclined to believe that partner professional dialogue is a crucial stage in the teaching-learning process. It is similar to peer coaching, which might help teachers to reflect and find out how they are doing with their teaching. In this case the Professional dialogue might occur between English Language Teachers in one or more than one conversations.

During the development of this activity we as teachers need to reflect on our teaching practice, it is related with the context in where we are teaching. I conclude that most of the teachers could benefit from becoming reflective teachers and having professional dialogues with partners.

For instance when I had the first dialogue with my colleague Miss Diva, she tried to situate in my entire context despite she does not teach children. I explained the goals of the course and how I was expecting to achieve them. It took time to talk about details; what was happening in the classroom, the development of the classes and students’ behavior. Indeed all this was necessary for the reflection on action process.

One advantage of choosing Miss Diva to have the dialogue was that she is my very close neighbor, so for the second (some hours) conversation she had reflected in my teaching practice and she was ready to comment some strategies. Even I needed to make changes in my planning.

My colleague was present in one of my classes as an observer, I remember we have seen this in other subject, the teacher observing, I liked and I consider as I mention above: most of the teachers might benefit with this practice. Although we can feel uncomfortable to have an observer and most to be criticize but the sole aim of this is to help us in our performance.

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