February MoTeL workshop

At the February workshop of the MoTeL project we discussed the synopsis of the study to be prepared in Task 1 “Main fields of study of profession and related research of CPD. Exploration of the general knowledge base of CPD in some other professions related to the teacher profession”, with project participants and colleagues in the Institute of Education. This study aims to provide relevant and useful input for our research investigating the continuous professional development of teachers through exploring the legal, medical and higher education instructor professions. The second half of the workshop was dedicated to discussing the next steps in our analysis of international and Hungarian literature that will provide a basis for developing the theoretical framework of our research.

Our recently started research project titled MoTeL - Models of Teacher Learning. Investigation of Teacher Continuous Professional Development Models at the Level of the Education System, the Organisation and the Individual aims at exploring the characteristics and relationships of system, organisational and individual level factors that have an impact on teachers’ continuous professional development (CPD) and the measurability of the individual, organisational and system level effectiveness of the various stages of CPD. In addition to conducting theoretical and empirical research, we consider as an important task to initiate and support the cooperation of all researchers interested in this topic. Therefore, our research results will be regularly discussed with the involvement of external researchers at the monthly MoTeL workshops. We also plan to organise a national as well as an international workshop to present and discuss the outcomes of our analysis of the theoretical background. Addressing an even wider audience is an objective of launching this homepage where we will not only regularly report about the progress and outcomes of our project and the related workshops, but under the Useful links we also intend to develop a collection of links (e.g., to relevant national and international journals, projects, conferences, literature etc.) to assist researchers as well as teachers and other interested stakeholders to get further information about this topic.