Holistic Professional Development
I have used Wilber's AQAL Model to organize what holistic professional development could look like. Unlike the ILP model suggested in the Holistic Personal Development page, I suggest that educators take time to try out several of the various practices from the different quadrants: Interior Individual, Exterior Individual, Interior Collective, and Exterior Collective.
As I stated previously, personal development will benefit your professional life considerably, where as these practices may have less of a payoff, as they technically only fall under a few of the modules in ILP: mind, work and possible emotions, with the last two being auxiliary modules.
Much of what is listed in the four quadrants are things that teachers consider or participate in occasionally. One does not need to commit to doing many of these consistently but bringing intentionality to them as you try them out and using them to grow as a teacher will be beneficial for you as a teacher and for your students. Working on: a) Your interior individual, which is essentially personal development, can include your emotional reactions, thoughts, ideas, preconceptions, b) Your exterior, individual behavior, like teaching practices, use of technology, utilizing new professional resources, c) Your interior collective or how you fit into your social group, like engaging in PLC's, moderated marking, co-planning and co-teaching, d) Your exterior collective, considering relevant environments and systems, will help every teacher's practice.
The AQAL framework helps us to see where we often engage in PD. Maybe you often work with a colleague to plan and mark, and attend inservices together but you rarely consider the effect emotions, thoughts, ideas have on your teaching. This framework can be used to plan for more holistic professional development that helps you to be a more well-rounded, better developed educator.
