Diane Larsen Freeman talk Are there stages in teacher development

Diane LarsenFreeman is Professor of Education, Professor of Linguistics, and Research Scientist at the English Language Institute, University of Michigan and an author whose books include Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (2011) and Complex Systems and applied Linguistics (2008). On Saturday 24 November 2012 she gave a talk at International House London entitled Are there stages in teacher development Her talk argued that the sequence of stages from novice to mastery as identified within many developmental phenomena does not exist in teacher development, and that a trajectory with an implied endpoint is not a useful way to think about teacher training, education.