The Professional Development and Leadership Institute has been established in recognition that professional development is fundamental to the professional practice of teachers, to ensure that students benefit from dynamic and futures-oriented professional development experiences. Support for ongoing teacher professional development is central to quality schooling and promoting professionalism and a sense of scholarship within the teaching community.
There is strong evidence in the Queensland School Reform Longitudinal Study (2001) that investment in teachers - particularly in their expertise, intellectual development, professional judgement and networks - is necessary for productive pedagogies and improved student outcomes.
Study findings also confirm that both within-school and external professional development is needed to enhance teacher capabilities. Both forms of professional development play important and independent roles in improving school organisational capacity and in enhancing teacher capital.
Taken together, study findings on professional development and individual teacher capital suggest that a systemic focus on increasing individual teacher capital through professional development will improve schools' organisational capacity to deliver improved student outcomes.
This section of the Professional Development and Leadership Institute web site provides links to information on professional development opportunities for teachers.
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