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professional development [n.]
the advancement of skills or expertise to succeed in a particular profession, especially through continued education
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1857.
Professional Development is an integral component of teacher development. It is an ongoing activity designed to increase levels of expertise and understanding. It should, where possible, be a process that works individually with the strengths and needs of a specific teacher or teacher assistant in order to create higher capability and understanding. Continuing or Continuous Professional Development, Staff Development and Mentoring are other common terms used in this area.
There are pages of information able to be accessed using either the page number boxes above or the links that follow.
This page looks at Professional Development information related to all Australian states & territories.
The Second Page looks at other Australian information. It also has a section covering Leadership Development.
The Third Page looks at Research, Reviews & Reports including a range of articles and other documents, as well as other information including resources, programs and associations.
Other pages with connections to this area include Beginning Teachers and Teacher Assessment.
States & Territories
Australian Capital Territory
- Leadership and Career Development
‘Leadership development and Career development are two of the key areas of current activity for the Leadership and Capacity Building Team in the Professional Learning Section’. Scroll down to reach this section. - Office of Catholic Partnerships
Information regarding potential options for partnerships in education and professional development between the Australian Catholic University and other Catholic agencies. - Professional
Development Overview [Literacy & Numeracy]
Looks at the scope of professional development offered in this area in government schools. -
Professional Development, Training & Support
Position statement of the ACT branch of the Early Childhood Association. - Professional Learning
Home page for Professional Learning in the ACT Government system. - Professional Learning Calendar
Courses, services, elearning, programs. - Professional Learning Funding
Information is in the fourth section of this page. -
Strategic Directions in Professional Learning
Background and links to several publications. - The Centre for Teaching and Learning
‘Promotes, supports and delivers career-long professional learning that will enable classroom teaching and learning that equips students for the knowledge-based society’. - Teacher Scholarships
Check information about conditions and application processes for PD. Multiple areas.
New South Wales
- Association of Independent Schools of NSW
Professional Support areas plus KLA specific areas for both Primary and Secondary levels. Professional Support covers both teaching groups and topic areas. There is also information about the Annual AIS IT Manager’s Conference. - Children’s Services Central
‘Provider of professional development and inclusion support and training to eligible child care services in New South Wales’. - Continuing Professional Development
‘The NSW Institute of Teachers will support teachers by providing advice about the provision of professional development. Our support focuses on identifying relevant research, course and program quality, availability and appropriateness. The information about professional development collected by the Institute will enable the strategic planning of courses or programs. It will also give the opportunity to raise the standard of professional development for the benefit of teaching and learning in NSW’. To see their Policy go here, while a list of the Endorsed Providers can be found here. - NSW & ACT Independent Education Union
Links to a variety of professional training. - Professional Development for Teachers - The University of
Sydney
‘The Faculty of Education and Social Work offers professional development for educators K-12 on-campus, online and in-schools. Our presenters are leaders in their fields providing evidence-based content that is responsive to current issues, and to the needs of busy teachers. In addition to our advertised events, we can develop courses on request, tailored to your needs and delivered at your school. Our activities are NSWIT endorsed and postgraduate credit transfer is optional for some of our courses’. - Professional Learning and Leadership Development
‘Here you will find policy frameworks and resources for supporting teacher learning, leadership learning, and school administrative staff learning’. - Professional Learning Policy for Schools
- Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate Website
Professional support across all curriculum and development areas. - Professional Teachers’ Council
Promoting teacher professionalism and development. A Professional Development Calender can be accessed here. - SCIL - Lead the Change
‘Established as the research and innovation unit of Northern Beaches Christian School [Sydney, Australia], SCIL runs a range of programs and research projects that seek to transform educational thinking and practice both at NBCS and in the wider educational community’. - State Training Services
Covers businesses, individuals, training providers and more. Also has links related to apprenticeships and traineeships. - Teacher Professional Learning - Arts Unit
‘High quality, engaging professional learning, accredited by the NSW Institute of teachers, is available to support all the Art Unit program’. Several areas are covered. - Teachers in the Loop
‘A Free website for teachers in NSW. Primary and Secondary teachers can connect directly to businesses and organisations that provide relevant educational services across all key learning areas’. - Teaching & Learning
Exchange
Covers not only Professional Development [Learning] but resources, information for parents & community, professional news, jargon buster and information from a Resource Piloting Centre. Well worth visiting.
Northern Territory
- ICT : Professional Learning
[Previously Latis] - Northern Territory Music School
In addition to other activities, they provide consultancy, professional development and involvement in musical presentations. They are actually a gazetted school. - Professional
Development
Catholic Education Office. Find what is occurring each term, download a calendar, look for special features. - Professional Learning [NT]
Introduction, two downloads [PDF] covering What is Professional Learning ? and the Professional Learning Policy. - Professional Learning Framework
‘These pages are intended to provide access to professional learning policy and related documents, an explanation of the six principles that underpin professional learning, tools to assist individuals, workplaces and clusters identify their professional learning needs, a framework to assist staff to plan their own and others’ professional learning, tools to guide the facilitation of professional learning and access to a range of resources’. - Professional Learning Modules
‘The Professional Learning modules have been developed as a support for schools seeking to implement various aspects of the Safe Schools NT Framework’.
Queensland
- Centre for Educational Leadership and Innovation
Works within the Independent Schools sector. - Continuing Professional Learning
Project from the Queensland College of Teachers. - Developing Teacher Professional Learning Communities
The Case of Education Queensland. Extensive research article with bibliography. - Learning Place
See Australian Information section for details. - Professional Development — Executive Leaders
- Professional Development Plan 2010-2012
‘The Education Queensland Professional Development Plan for State Schools 2010-2012 outlines the key professional development priorities for Queensland’s state schools. It recognises that a variety of types of professional development for all teachers is needed in order to lift the overall levels of achievement in Queensland’s schools, with a focus on building teachers’ skills in teaching literacy, numeracy and science’. You can Download a Copy here. - Professional Development - Restart Teachers
- Professional Development — School Leaders
- Professional Development — Teachers
- Professional Development — Teacher Aides
- Professional Exchange
Teacher Exchange Program. - Smart Classrooms Professional Development Framework
Objectives, information, overview, downloadable documentation, contact details for further information. - Staff Development Procedures
Details on areas from their Policy and Procedures Register. - Professional Development and Events
Information as well as links to related information. - Queensland College of Teachers - Links
Primarily Queensland.
South Australia
- CEASA
Check the PD-online Database [l/h column]. - Centre for Learning and Professional Development
University of Adelaide. ‘Provides development programs to enhance student learning, staff teaching and staff development through research and the provision of educational services, resources and consultancies’. The university Professional Development Policy is detailed here. -
Curriculum Years R-10
Includes links to the SACSA Framework and to the Australian Curriculum. Materials and resources to develop professional understanding. - Leaders Desktop
A site that covers Planning, Improvement & Accountability, Governance & Decision Making, Leadership, Learning & Wellbeing and Resource Management information. Among some of the areas to see are :
- Leadership Resources
- Improvement
Including What’s New ? and a Calendar of events, Speakers in Schools and more.
- Learning to Learn
‘Learning to Learn is changing the way teaching and learning is conceptualised and constructed for the children and students of South Australia. Learning to Learn provides leaders and teachers with extended learning opportunities to focus on generative learning - learning how to learn’. - Professional & Continuing Education [PCE]
While for the general community, there are a range of courses that would be suitable within the educational field, including languages, personal development and Professional Education courses. - Professional Development
Covers all aspects of Professional Development from Pre-service teachers through to leadership programs and includes administrative and support staff. - SACSA Professional Development Modules
[Assessment and Accountability as Learning Opportunities]
‘The Assessment and Accountability as Learning Opportunities professional development modules have been developed to provide information about a range of assessment topics relating to the implementation of the SACSA Framework’. - SA’s Action Plan for Literacy & Numeracy
‘Indicates reforms actions among other aspects’. -
Teacher Upskilling
‘DECD financially supports eligible teachers who require upskilling in areas of workforce need’. -
Training and Professional Development Opportunities for Leaders
Includes ‘DECD Exchanges; Introducing the National Professional Standard for Principals; Performance Counts : making performance count in your school’. - Training and Professional Support Strategy Guidelines
- Workforce Development
Now fully under the heading Human Resources. Developed with multiple sections including professional development, leadership, conditions, etc..
Tasmania
- Online Learning, Professional Learning
All details at this site. - Professional Learning for …
[Relief teachers and teachers returning after extended leave]
Contact details for information from each of the four Learning Services. - Professional Learning Handbook
From the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office. - Professional Learning [Tas]
- VET Workers Professional Development Program
Details about the program, from Skills Tasmania. Word and PDF format downloads.
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Victoria
- Arts Domain - Professional Learning
‘This section contains information, resources and tools to help teachers with their professional learning’. Includes areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts and General. - Building The Skills of The Education Workforce
Part of the Blueprint for Government Schools. - Catholic Education Office, Melbourne
Click on Professional Development in l/h column. - Critical Agendas
Runs a range of professional development programs, which appear to be held mostly in the Ballarat/Melbourne areas. Covers most educational areas. - FUSE - Professional
Learning
‘Professional learning covers both formal and informal training and resources for teachers, trainers, administrators and others working in education’. - Health and Physical Education - Professional Learning
- Human Resources - Professional Development
Information on aspects of professional development. - ICTEV - Events & PD
‘ICT in Education Victoria is the pre-eminent Victorian professional association that provides support and leadership to all educators in the use of ICT in teaching and learning’. - ICT Professional Learning Domain
‘This section contains information, resources and tools to help teachers with their professional learning’. - ideasLAB
‘deasLAB aims to challenge the way we think about learning and teaching, and find new ways to take technology into the classroom’. -
Innovating with Technology
Applications/Use of Collaborative Tools in Victorian Schools. A report about this project can be found on the Teaching and Learning with Web 2.0 Technologies page. It is also linked with the FUSE site. This was a project from the last few years. -
Innovation Projects
‘The Department works in partnership with practitioners, communities, academics and international experts to make this innovation a reality. Our projects focus on practitioners leading trials in innovative practices which are then promoted and shared’. Current Projects include Innovating with Technology, Using Social Media : Digital Demons and Intercultural Understanding. -
Leadership Continuum
‘The Leadership Continuum aims to help map career paths for leadership roles within Catholic Education across the Archdiocese of Melbourne.The Catholic Education Office Melbourne in its commitment to supporting leadership development is providing resources, support and information around six phases of a Leadership Continuum’. - Professional Leadership
A descriptor page for Professional Leadership. Other pages on this topic include the following.
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Leadership Development
Select from a range of programs and modules that best meet your stage of professional growth and learning goals’. One example is the Coaching for Impact Program. - School Leadership Development
- Willing to Lead Publications
‘Provides first hand accounts of the leadership learning of Learning to Lead Effective Schools program participants’. Available in PDF format. - Women in Leadership
- Pdi [Professional Learning]
Developed by the Victorian Institute of Teaching, it provides information and access to a vast array of professional development opportunities available to satisfy ongoing professional development requirements as part of maintaining registration as a teacher. Victorian teachers in particular, will benefit from the site. - Principles of Highly Effective Professional
Learning
‘The seven principles of highly effective professional learning’. - Professional Development - VCAA
‘[These] professional development opportunities are available for principals, teachers and school administration staff. The sessions are listed in date order’. - Professional Learning Approaches
‘To compliment the variety of programs, there are a number of approaches to learning which can be tailored appropriately to fit the individuals’ requirements’. - Professional Learning [Vic]
Links to development in the curriculum area including the following.
- Education Excellence Awards
- Learning & Teaching Research
- School Services Officers Professional Learning
- Teacher Professional Learning
- Victorian Public Service Staff Professional Learning
- Sandhurst Diocese - Professional Development
Click on Resources. - School Leadership Development
‘Professional learning programs available for current and future school leaders’. - School Policy and Advisory Guide
See Section 6, Management for information on Professional Development.
Previously known as the Reference Guide. - School Services Officers Professional Learning
- Science in Schools - Professional Learning
- Subject Associations, Professional Development
- Support for Your Professional Learning
Lists a range of programs from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. - Teacher Learning Network
‘An innovative, statewide cross-sectoral network offering curriculum and professional development support to teachers and schools. TLN is inspired by the desire to enhance a learning community in schools’. - Teacher Professional Leave
- Victorian Education Excellence Awards
Western Australia
- Books & Journals for Professional Reading
‘Reviews of books and journals for professional reading of interest to those involved in promoting reading of fiction to children and young adults’. - Catholic Education Office : Professional learning
Course Calendar and Search mechanism. - Leadership Programs
‘To raise the standards of school leadership in government schools’. Another aspects related to leadership can be found on the Licence to Leadership site. - Online Curriculum Services
Includes interactive collaboration, professional learning, more. - Professional Development - Curriculum
Council
Download the Calendar, find details about registration and access other Teacher Support aspects. - Professional Development
Professional Development from the School Drug Education and Road Aware Unit. - Professional Learning
‘This site has been developed to enable all Department staff working in schools or supporting the work of schools to access professional learning for skills development, personal and professional growth, and any career aspirations they may have’. - School Matters
‘Published twice each term by the Department of Education. The magazine covers the full spectrum of issues affecting public education : Best practice teaching and learning, Professional development, Student, teacher and school achievements, Opinion and comment’.