{"id":838,"date":"2016-08-01T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2016-08-01T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T13:37:42","slug":"taking-control-of-your-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2016\/08\/01\/taking-control-of-your-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Control of your Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is basically an extended comment on Clare Fielder&#8217;s interesting post, <a href=\"https:\/\/clareseltcompendium.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/28\/take-control-of-your-teaching-career-using-the-european-profiling-grid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Taking Control of your Teaching Career with the European Profiling Grid<\/a>.<br \/>\nThere is a lot to like about it in that it is systematic &#8211; sort of like the CEFR. It also tends to assume that you are intending to spend time near classrooms if not remaining in teaching; DoS-type progression is in it but so is the path of expert practitioner.<br \/>\nThere are some flaws in it: it doesn&#8217;t really apply exactly to small department contexts. It also stops fairly abruptly; not blowing my own trumpet (well, maybe a bit) but if you&#8217;re at the far end already, where do you go next? I don&#8217;t intend to leave the classroom to be a Big ELT manager or materials designer for a big publisher, so then what?<br \/>\nThese are fairly minor criticisms though, seeing as a lot of TEFLers have a shelf life of about 3-5 years. It would still be an interesting read for anybody who has a few years under their belt but if you&#8217;ve worked across contexts, what else is there to do without changing countries or companies for the sake of change?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is basically an extended comment on Clare Fielder&#8217;s interesting post, Taking Control of your Teaching Career with the European Profiling Grid. There is a lot to like about it in that it is systematic &#8211; sort of like the CEFR. It also tends to assume that you are intending to spend time near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[73,81,103],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-dw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}