The Professional Development Program
In its Professional Development Program, the AUB team adopts the experiential learning approach informed by the adult learning theory. The AUB team acts as facilitator of the process of professional development, taking on the role of ongoing challenge and support.
TAMAM is building school practitioners’ capacity with inquiry and reflective skills and empowering them with new habits of mind. By liberating themselves from the mentality of learned passivity, practitioners are prepared to become active learners and knowledge producers. By working directly with school practitioners and expanding their perception of team work potential, TAMAM is transforming school culture.
Collaboration, open sharing, de-privatization of practice, systematic documentation of experiences, and gathering evidence for decision-making and planning are only some of the competencies project participants are being coached to acquire. Such activities empower practitioners with the knowledge and motivation needed to take action and initiate improvement.
“The project started and evolved in a way that transformed me at the personal level. I found out that its goals are not only limited to school reform but have to do with building individuals who will have the power to drive change starting from within their school and then the school will change within the country and then the country will drive change at the level of other countries, so it’s like a blossoming rose...Never before in my life have I thought that I might take part in such an experience!”
“I think the outcome from our participation in TAMAM is that now we have acquired this habit of gathering data to take decisions and actions…Imagine if TAMAM was implemented in your school…Imagine that your teachers will be engaged in continuous reflection about their own practices – then the benefits for their own professional development are enormous! They will assume responsibility of their own practice; no longer will they be assessed by the principal but rather they will reflect on their problems and think about ways to confront these! The skills I have acquired through TAMAM have become a way of thinking.”