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My Professional Trajectory as an English Teacher: A Socially Situated Perspective

  • Initial Training

    Initial Training

    (Teacher as a learner of teaching)
    Time period: Pre-service education / University training. During initial training, I developed basic teaching practice through micro-teaching and methodology courses, but with limited institutional context. Learning followed a knowledge-transmission model. Continuing professional development was implicit rather than explicit, showing the limits of front-loaded preparation described by Freeman and Johnson (1998).
  • Key Experiences

    Key Experiences

    (Contexts of schools and schooling + teaching activity)
    Time period: Teaching practicum / First teaching experiences. Early teaching experiences strengthened my teaching practice while revealing how institutional context, school policies, curricula, and student realities, shapes classroom decisions. These experiences marked the beginning of authentic continuing professional development, as knowledge emerged through participation rather than theory alone (Freeman Johnson, 1998).
  • Personal Reflections

    Personal Reflections

    (Teacher knowledge as constructed and evolving)
    Time period: Ongoing professional practice. Through reflection, I integrated teaching practice with a deeper understanding of institutional context. Reflective inquiry became central to my continuing professional development, allowing me to reinterpret theory based on classroom experience and to recognize myself as an active learner of teaching (Freeman Johnson, 1998).
  • Future Projection

    Future Projection

    (Continuing professional development)
    Time period: Future professional growth. My future development prioritizes reflective teaching practice, active engagement with institutional contexts, and sustained continuing professional development. In line with Freeman and Johnson (1998), I view teacher learning as lifelong, socially situated, and grounded in classroom participation and professional communities.