Reflection is a vital process for personal and professional growth, enabling educators and school leaders to assess their teaching methods, leadership styles, and strategies. Reflective practice empowers educators to analyze their strengths, address areas for improvement, and align their practices with national and international standards to foster continuous development and ensure optimal learner outcomes. This […]

Professional growth is a continuous journey that involves teachers, leaders, and educational professionals improving their knowledge, skills, and practices to ensure quality learning outcomes for students. Engaging in professional growth can take various forms, such as participating in professional development (PD) activities, integrating new teaching methodologies, or adapting to technological advancements in education. Two key […]

Professional development (PD) activities are fundamental strategies for enhancing teacher capacity, improving teaching practices, and ultimately boosting learner achievement. Schools often implement PD initiatives as a response to challenges like student underachievement, changes in curriculum standards, technological advances, or leadership transitions. However, the real question is whether these activities translate into tangible changes in classroom […]

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can impact student learning when teachers are digitally literate and understand how to integrate it into curriculum. Schools use a diverse set of ICT tools to communicate, create, disseminate, store, and manage information.(6) In some contexts, ICT has also become integral to the teaching-learning interaction, through such approaches as replacing […]

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Recent extensive research has highlighted the shortcomings of the one-off workshops that many school districts tend to provide and has also found that the ongoing, job-embedded, collaborative, professional learning that is proven to be highly effective overseas is not widely used across the United States. The most powerful way to raise student achievement is through […]

It affects student learning It’s obvious that good teachers are better at teaching students effectively. When teachers have access to continuous learning opportunities and professional development resources, they’re better equipped to become good teachers — especially if their students have learning needs or are performing below or above grade level. Student achievement should be the […]

Teacher professional development is any type of continuing education effort for educators. It’s one way teachers can improve their skills and, in turn, boost student outcomes.   Learning can take place in formal or informal settings. Formal settings include conferences, courses, seminars, retreats and workshops. Informal opportunities for teacher professional development include independent research or […]

Every educator has at least one tale of a teacher professional development session gone wrong. But how can you avoid those mistakes? It’s difficult to plan and execute creative opportunities for teachers to continue to build their skills. Many school leaders will admit that professional development is the last thing on their mind in the middle of […]

How do you want teachers and students to feel when they walk into school every morning? Are your teachers dreading coming to work in the morning? Do students walk into the building with their heads down, trying not to interact with others? Or are your teachers excited, starting each class with enthusiasm? Do you hear […]