This is is the first part of the a workshop on the use of Cooperative Development (the second part is experiential). Further information on the use of this approach can be found on the website www.cooperative-development.com

1. Mariam Attia
Critical Reflection :Professional and Context-bound Learning
Cooperative
Development

2.  Understand, both intellectually and experientially, the
differences and opportunities offered by the use of non-
judgemental discourse
 Critically engage with emerging literature in the field
 Become familiar with cooperative-development.com
 Be in a position to judge for themselves the potential of
the approach for the growth of their own personal
effectiveness and interpersonal engagement
Objectives

3. Non-judgmental Communication
Coaching
Mentoring Cooperative
Development
Coaching
Mentoring Cooperative
Development

4. Activity A - Listening
 Please sit next to someone you
have not worked with before.
 Think of one interesting thing you
have learned in the past two days.
Non-judgmental Communication

5. The approach recognises that teachers
 work in diverse disciplinary and institutional cultures
 are involved in various professional activities
 are keen to advance their own teaching practice
 would appreciate more space for reflection
 are often responsible for facilitating the development of more junior
colleagues
Why Cooperative Development?

6. Can be applied to:
 Addressing any teaching-related issues (e.g., course planning, time
management, assessment, material development, inclusion, new ways
of teaching, relationship with students, integrating technology into one’s
practice)
 Strategic planning of teaching lessons, whole modules, educational
projects, or career progression
 Other issues of personal or interpersonal significance
-> Enhances trust and collegiality
Why Cooperative Development?

7. An approach to personal and professional development (Edge, 2002)
Bill Johnston (2009) – Collaborative Teacher development
Carl Rogers’ Person-centered approach (e.g., 1961/2004)
Whether one calls it a growth tendency, a drive toward self-actualization, or a
forward-moving directional tendency, it is the mainspring of life … It is the urge
which is evident in all organic and human life – to expand, extend, become
autonomous, develop, mature – the tendency to express and activate all the
capacities of the organism, to the extent that such activation enhances the
organism or the self. (p. 35)
What is Cooperative Development?

8.  An internal approach to teacher development
 No single way of becoming a teacher is right for everyone
 Teachers are always in a state of becoming
 We learn through articulating ideas and actively pushing them
forward
 Teacher self-development is a social phenomenon
 Development is a life-long process
 One of the greatest assets to any university is a developing teacher
What is Cooperative Development?

9. “Overall, Cooperative Development creates a unique kind of mediational
space and a unique kind of discourse within which self-exploration and the
articulation and re-articulation of ideas can emerge”.
(Johnson, 2009, p.109)
What is Cooperative Development?

10.  Learning through the expression of one’s ideas
 A specific kind of discourse
 Working for regular, agreed upon periods with a colleague
 Roles: Speaker & Understander
What is Cooperative Development?

11.  Non-defensive, open, proactive, knows they are resourceful and
that they are the only experts on their own lives
 Purpose -> explore a certain issue or area of interest
 Leads to discovery and a plan of action
Speaker

12.  Non-judgmental
 Respect - Empathy - Sincerity
 Facilitates the Speaker’s path of exploration - discovery - action, in
line with the speaker’s own professional development goals
 Follows a set of agreed moves
Understander

13. Reflect

14. Relate

15. Focus

16. Goal Setting

17. Trail Procedure

18. Please read the example in the handout and discuss the following with
your colleague:
 How has the Speaker progressed from exploration to discovery?
 What were the ‘moves’ that the Understander used?
Example

19. Activity B – Reflecting
Please listen to carefully to this story..
Why Cooperative Development?

20. Online Cooperative Development

21. http://www.cooperative-development.com
.. Offering resources and a community
The Website
http://www.cooperative-development.com
.. Offering resources and a community

22. https://padlet.com/mariamattia/p657hor1zx5p
Your Thoughts

23. Over to you!

24. Thank you
Any questions?
m.attia@sussex.ac.uk