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It is an ongoing process that supports continuous development of practice throughout the whole of a teacher’s career.  \n• Teaching practice comprises a range of areas, each of which can be targeted by PD activities. For example, in the TPACK model (Mishra and Koehler, 2006) three overlapping areas exist – Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge. PD activities could therefore specifically target subject content knowledge or instead  \nfocus on subject-specific pedagogical knowledge (the overlapping areas of Pedagogical and Content Knowledge).  \n• Any activity that supports teachers to reflect, learn and then act to improve their practice can be classed as teacher PD, and such activities can occur in a face-toface or online environment. Some examples are given in Figure 1.  \n• Teachers can engage in PD activities at the micro (individual) or macro level (collaborating with teachers across a range of contexts; Figure 1).  \nFigure 1: Micro to macro scale engagement with PD activities  \nKey:  \nNumber of teachers involved Context  \nExample PD activity  \nMacro  \nLarge group of teachers from  \ndifferent schools or even countries  \ncollaborating through a  \nprofessional online learning community or at a national or international teaching conference.  \nSmall groups of teachers in the same department or school taking part in classroom research together.  \nTwo teachers in the same department or school developing teaching practice through mentoring.  \nMicro  \nIndividual teacher reading articles or listening to podcasts about developing teaching practice.  \n1   \nEducation brief-Teacher professional development  \nWhat other terms are associated with teacher PD?  \nOther terms commonly associated with teacher PD include:  \n• Continuing professional development (CPD) reinforces the notion that professionals should always develop their expertise and teaching practice.  \n• Teacher (or professional) education emphasises how engagement in educational experiences leads to learning, advancing a teacher’s knowledge, skills and characteristics and enhancing their practice.  \n• Training often develops operational features of a role, focusing on accomplishing one specific skill, such as understanding how to teach a syllabus or how to write learning objectives.  \n• Mentoring and coaching are slightly different from one another. Mentoring focuses on establishing a supportive relationship where a less experienced teacher benefits from the guidance of a more experienced colleague (a ‘critical friend’). Coaching is a technique that provides structured support to encourage a practitioner to review and develop their practice in relation to a specific skill or change in circumstance.  \n• A professional learning community/network brings practitioners together, enabling the sharing of ideas and experiences, as well as providing mutual support, either online or face to face.  \n• In action research teachers conduct research into their own practice with the aim of finding out how they might overcome a specific issue or problem associated with their practice.  \nWhat is the theory behind teacher PD?  \n• The impact of teachers on learners: Educational research indicates that teachers and their classroom actions play a large role in explaining variation in learner achievement (Creemers and Kyriakides, 2013). Therefore, effective teacher PD can positively impact teachers’practice and substantially improve learner outcomes.  \n• Teachers as learners themselves: ","cbCaifCbS03hX2FD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifCbS03hX2FD","pdf",1031565,"English","# Teacher professional development (PD)\n## Meaning and aims of PD\n## Associated terms\n## Theory behind PD\n## Benefits of PD","[{\"question\":\"What does teacher professional development (PD) mean?\",\"answer\":\"Teacher PD is a continuous process of reflection, learning, and action that develops a teacher’s knowledge and skills. It leads to enhanced teaching practices that positively impact students’ learning.\"},{\"question\":\"What types of activities can count as teacher PD?\",\"answer\":\"Any activity that helps teachers reflect, learn, and then act to improve practice can be classed as teacher PD. 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