'Teaching: the Reflective Profession.' General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland, Workshop 10, GTC Scotland National Education Conference, 28 May 2009. This workshop will present perspectives by leading practitioners from the General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland in relation to the professional development of teachers. Key areas of discussion will include teaching in Northern Ireland as an evidence based profession within professional communities of practice.

1. Competences Opportunity or Constraint? Sterling Presentation 28 May 2009 ‘ Teaching: the Reflective Profession’

5. Teaching can never be reduced to a set of discrete skills to be mastered in some mechanical process of assimilation. To adopt such a reductionist approach would be to deny the intellectual basis for our work and the richness of the ongoing dialogue and learning that enhances our professional practice .

6. School Improvement/Enhanced Pupil Performance Quality Reflection Competences Evaluation

7. Teaching: the Reflective Profession

9. The Reflective and Activist Teacher

10. Overview of the Teacher Competences and the Competence Statements and Phase Exemplars

22. Competences Opportunity or Constraint? Building Dynamic Professional Communities