خلاصة:
Self evaluation is developing a greater self-awareness about the nature and impact of one’s performance which provides opportunities for professional growth and development (General Medical Council, 2010). It is distinctly emphasized in Islam and its followers are advised to take some time periodically to evaluate their deeds. The present study aims at finding evidence that self evaluation has been taken into consideration in Islamic religious texts. It is also focused on how being inspired by self evaluation developed in Islamic religious texts can improve the quality of teachers’ job. To this end, verses of Quran and traditions were looked into with respect to self evaluation. Meanwhile, the recently developed approaches to self evaluation were explored to find out the relationship between the two outlooks and the contribution they might potentially have to develop self evaluation particularly among teachers. The findings show that self evaluation is considered as one of the basic tenets of Islam and within its framework, humans are the best evaluators of themselves. Teachers, walked through the whole self evaluation process by numerous Quran verses and traditions, are called to be consistent and spiritually motivated in order to do consequentially valid self evaluation. Self-evaluator teachers are urged to avoid bias, arrogance, pride, and self-enhancement, and make upward comparison to develop professionally. The findings of this study have implications for teacher development and teacher education. They can also be employed by English teachers as well as syllabus and textbook designers in the sense that they can take self evaluation developed in religious texts into account in EFL contexts.
ملخص الجهاز:
Addressing teacher self evaluation in Islamic religious texts [In English] Hakimeh Pourjamal 1* 1 Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Iran *Corresponding author: hakimeh_pourjamal@gums.
It is also focused on how being inspired by self evaluation developed in Islamic religious texts can improve the quality of teachers’ job.
Keywords: Teacher Self-evaluation, Religious Texts, Consequential Validity, Professional Development 1.
Regehr and Eva (2006) declared that in order to regulate one’s competence, a professional needs to self-assess gaps in his/her competence and also has to be willing to look for opportunities to close these gaps when identified.
Because SE “components are not static and relations are not linear and predictable, SA accuracy seems to be frequently unreliable” (Sargeant, Armson, Chesluk, Dornan, Eva, Holmboe, Lockyer, Loney, Mann & van der Voluten, 2010, p.
Caulford, Lamb, Kaigas, Hanna, Norman and Davis (1994) referred to the importance of social factors in a seemingly individual enterprise like SE and indicated that one of the best predictors of incompetence is working in isolation.
4. Results and Discussion: Self-evaluation in Islam As the educational pendulum moved from behaviorism to cognitivism, teacher’s thinking and its development became a major research area (Madsen, 2005).
319) Seeking for advice by the self-evaluating teacher is another suggestion of Islam to improve professionally.
Self-evaluator teachers are urged to avoid bias, arrogance, pride, and self-enhancement, and make upward comparison to develop professionally.
Self-evaluator teachers are urged to avoid bias, arrogance, pride, and self-enhancement, and make upward comparison to develop professionally.