Teachers’ Professional Development: call for practices

📣 The TPD CLUB (New Learning Club on Teachers’ Professional Development), an initiative of the ETF Community of Innovative Educators, is pleased to launch a Call for Practices! 

Context

New Learning Club on Teachers’ Professional Development is an initiative of the ETF Community of Innovative Educators and provides a space for educators to engage in a global learning community, gain insights into effective and scalable TPD models, and co-create a resource that synthesises key findings and recommendations.

As part of our shared mission to promote effective and scalable models of Teachers’ Professional Development (TPD), we invite educators, school leaders, policymakers, and organisations to contribute inspiring practices that have made a tangible impact on teacher growth and learning.

🌍 Why Contribute?

The TPD CLUB offers a dynamic space to:

• Engage in a global learning community
• Gain insights into innovative and practical TPD models
• Share your success stories and lessons learned
• Co-create a resource (club final outcome) that synthesizes key insights and recommendations for broader use

What we’re looking for/ Submission Guidelines

Practices in the following key thematic AREAS: 

Choose the KEY AREA, and submit a short description of your practice using and online questionnaire: 

• Applied/situated learning – TPD on the job
  Innovative approaches to classroom-based TPD, including the use of digital tools to support trainers directly in their practice.
• Teacher and student well-being
  Focusing on socio-emotional learning (SEL), resilience, mindfulness, and methods for supporting emotional balance and self-regulation in professional learning.
• International TPD and mobility
  Strengthening multicultural awareness and peer learning through international exposure and cross-border collaboration.
• Peer-based TPD and digital platforms
  Exploring models for ongoing, peer-supported learning and the role of digital platforms in sustaining development.
• Integrating key competences into TPD
  How TPD can support the integration of key competences - such as digital, green, and transversal skills - into teaching practice.

Join us in building a collective knowledge base for impactful teacher professional development. Let your practice inspire others! 

The Club is going to produce a collaborative OUTPUT that synthesizes key insights and recommendations for broader use. 

See examples of tools collectively developed by the Community thematic Clubs: 

• "Unlocking AI in education: A Teacher's Guide to AI Literacy"
•  Low-tech, High-impact - STEAM Club output

REFERENCE: New Learning Club on “Teachers Professional Development”