Purpose of Professional Learning

What is the Purpose of Professional Learning?

Engaging in Career-Long Learning 

TQS 2. A teacher engages in career-long professional learning and ongoing critical reflection to improve teaching and learning. Achievement of this competency is demonstrated by indicators such as: 

(a) collaborating with other teachers to build personal and collective professional capacities and expertise; 

(b) actively seeking out feedback to enhance teaching practice; 

(c) building capacity to support student success in inclusive, welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environments; 

(d) seeking, critically reviewing and applying educational research to improve practice; 

e) enhancing understanding of First Nations, Métis and Inuit worldviews, cultural beliefs, languages and values; and 

(f) maintaining an awareness of emerging technologies to enhance knowledge and inform practice.

Quality Learning Environment (QLE)

"Collaborative practice is all about teachers and school leaders working together to develop effective instructional practices, studying what works well in classrooms, and doing so both with rigorous attention to detail and with a commitment to improving not only one's own practice, but that of others."

Mourshed, Chijioke & Barber, 2010.