Framework for Teachers’ professional development

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This article shows:

• Shows that PD runs from teacher education to retirement, and identifies key components of effective PD: assessment, scale, duration, comprehensiveness, dissemination, context, support/control, collaboration and attention to reforms and curriculum.
• Includes a pathway for designing effective PD processes and design considerations.

Teachers’ professional development (PD) is crucial to improving student outcomes. Because PD involves a multidimensional structure and changes across a teacher’s professional life, defining PD is complicated, and existing studies fail to meaningfully define it. To offer a working framework for optimal PD, we reviewed existing articles on the subject in four key journals in teacher education. We found that effective PD is attentive to assessment, research scale, duration, comprehensiveness, dissemination, context, support and control, and collaboration.

We situate this conceptual framework as a new take on pre-existing definitions of PD that advises how to more effectively apply PD.

Verwijzingen

• Sancar, R., Atal, D. and Deryakulu, D. (2021). A new framework for teachers’ professional development (PDF) Teaching and Teacher Education, 101, 103305 doi:10.1016/j.tate.2021.103305.
• Project ST(E)AM Vision