‘Feeling Better about Myself as a Teacher’ and ‘Better Learning’

In the previous two chapters, the importance of social, personal and professional development as aspects of teacher development was discussed, as was their interwoven nature when viewed from a social constructivist view of learning. In this chapter, two research findings on teacher development which informed the model and the view of learning are presented. The two findings are labelled ‘feeling better about myself as a teacher’ and ‘better learning’.