Teaching is a dynamic, complex profession and teachers work in a challenging, ever-changing environment. Teachers thereby need to constantly up-skill to prepare for all the challenges they will face throughout their careers. Teachers need to have access to, and engage in, high quality professional development across the whole of their teaching career.

This course focuses on how teachers learn and develop. It explores three major areas:

• How teachers learn.
  
• The contemporary contexts of teacher professional learning and development.
  
• Supporting teacher professional learning in the workplace.
  

This course will enable participants to improve their own and their establishment’s practice in supporting teacher professional learning and development. In addition to exploring contemporary research and theory on teacher learning and development, participants will use this knowledge to develop practical skills. Participants will critically analyse a professional learning program at the school or system level within their context as well as develop a detailed proposal to set up or significantly revise a professional learning program. They will be provided the opportunity to share their proposals with their peers in the class, extending their capacity to both give and receive effective feedback.