Professional Identity begins to form when students start their academic study. Although addressing the Professional Identity Development (PID) of students can be very beneficial to students, it seldom is the explicit aim of educational programmes and courses. There is little empirical knowledge available to inform teachers, educational developers and programme directors on how to foster PID and on how to embed it in a course or an educational programme adequately. Against this background, Migchiel van Diggelen and Christina Morgan, studied how teacher coaching, aiming to foster students' professional identity development, was implemented in the departments of Industrial Design and Computer Science. The goal of the project was to gain insight into useful features for coaching models and to learn what good coaching entails.
About the workshop
Migchiel and Christina will start the workshop with a short presentation to give an impression of important outcomes of the project. More particularly, they will present how management intended both coaching programmes, how teachers implemented it and how students perceived it. In addition, experts' views on strong and weak points of both models will be presented. After the presentation, the participants will split up into two groups. In both groups, Migchiel and Christina will start with a short video they created. The video contains fragments of a teacher-coach session between a teacher-coach who is highly appreciated by his students and a bright student. The video is structured by important themes in coaching. After watching the video, the first group will discuss what knowledge, skills and attitude students need to possess to make teacher-coaching useful for themselves and to develop their professional identity. The second group will discuss what good teacher-coaching entails and what is needed to foster students' PID with coaching.
When: 3 July 2017
Time: 12.30 - 13.30(including lunch)
Location: Traverse 3.34
Register: email to 4tu.cee@tue.nl