The Role of Teachers’ Grit and Motivation in Self-Directed Professional Development

Abstract

Through English language teaching (ELT), educator professional development is an interesting and significant subject due to the fact it is in the interest of the educators’ career to make sure that its participants perform consistently with the highest degrees of agreed criteria. Correspondingly, educators mostly state a willingness to enhance their own education that allows them to enhance learners’ knowledge and consistent with the advent of the information-based community, the self-directed learning is vital for the employees. The self-directed professional development (PD) method is considered one option to improve vocational educators’ skills to improve their professionalism, learning development, and school development. Within the learning procedure, self-directed PD has used the rules of learning that are covered within the rules of individual teaching and the mental traits and ideas including motivation and grit that could have a mediating function in this area. Grit is critical within English language educator PD and improving it within educator PD means modeling it as a determinant of the learners’ success. In addition, comprehending motivation is vital for everybody intending to reduce expenses for PD, motivate employees, or be self-directed in their learning about the job. The purpose of the present literature review is to examine the function of such constructs in self-directed PD which is considered a great dimension of educator quality. Briefly, many applications are suggested for the scholastic beneficiaries.

Modeling the interplay between emotion regulation, self-efficacy, and L2 grit in higher education

“…According to Dale et al (2018) , Grittier people have positive attitudes toward life and show high job dedication. Grit is enhanced when individuals understand the difference between high-priority and low-priority objectives and learn how to manage their energies ( Hejazi and Sadoughi, 2022 ; Lan, 2022 ).…”

Modeling the impact of L2 grit on EFL learners’ core of self-assessment and foreign language anxiety

“…More specifically, the success of students in language learning is highly dependent on their effort and their passion for long-term goals; thus, L2 grit and its contribution to language assessment and academic achievement are of great importance. As Dale et al ( 2018 ) and Lan ( 2022 ) stipulated, individuals with high levels of grit have a positive viewpoint about their professional lives. From another perspective, grit as a personality trait empowers individuals to direct their energies and distinguish the difference between high-priority and low-priority objectives (Azizi et al, 2022 ; Hejazi & Sadoughi, 2022 ; Shirvan & Alamer, 2022 ; Vadivel et al, 2021 ).…”

A Lenz into the predictive power of language teacher emotion regulation and self-evaluation on L2 grit, teaching style preferences, and work engagement: a case of Chinese EFL instructors

“…As defined by [ 19 ], gritier individuals are optimistic and committed to their work. When people learn to prioritize their goals and allocate their time and effort effectively, their grit improves [ 20 ].…”