About
How can we make teacher professional development more relevant, continuous, inclusive and impactful?
The Teachers’ Professional Development Learning Club is part of the ETF Community of Innovative Educators. The Club brings educators, teacher trainers, researchers, policymakers and other education stakeholders together to explore this question.
Through international exchange and collaborative learning, the TPD Club connects experiences from different contexts to identify promising approaches and generate ideas that can inform professional practice and education policy. Beyond exchanging practices, the Club explores how different countries design and implement TPD, identifying both barriers and enablers of innovation.
Objective
Our ambition is to turn shared experience into practical knowledge that supports teachers and improves teaching and learning.
The Club goes beyond one-off training activities. It encourages reflection on the conditions that enable meaningful professional growth, the approaches that work in different education systems, and the ways professional learning can translate into better teaching and learner outcomes.
The Club brings members together through periodic online conversations where innovative teacher professional development (TPD) practices and key policy documents are presented, explored and discussed. These exchanges foster peer learning, knowledge sharing and collective reflection. ETF and Club members work together to co-produce a set of recommendations to inform future TPD initiatives.
How to join
The strength of the Club lies in the diversity and commitment of its members. Participation is open and free of charge, members shall contribute with their experience, ideas, and enthusiasm.
Why join the TPD Learning Club? ✨
🔹 Engage with an inspiring Community of educators and experts
🔹 Explore scalable, effective TPD models
🔹 Contribute to a set of recommendations for future TPD initiatives
🔹 Get featured in our final open webinar presentation
Interested in participating? Contact the Club team: newlearning@etf.europa.eu.
Explore the Club’s journey (Meetings)
Explore the meeting recordings, presentations, discussions and resources below to discover the questions raised, ideas shared and lessons emerging from the Club’s work.
📅 UPCOMING MEETING: 9th December 2026 at 14:00, Webinar "What's next for Teacher Professional Development? Relevance, effectiveness and adaptability"
6th October, Catch-up meeting. Taking the occasion of World Teachers’ Day as a meaningful moment for reflection and action, the New Learning Club on Teachers’ Professional Development (TPD) met on 6 October 2025 to explore innovative and inclusive approaches that enhance teaching quality and support continuous professional growth.
July 7th, Catch-up meeting . Experts from the World Economic Forum, from ETUCE and LLLP, reflected about topics related to professional development of teachers. The meeting paved the way to the Club's outcome, that will be framed and drafted together by all members, taking into consideration the five thematic areas identified by participants during the Kick-Off Meeting.
See the recoding below:
The Club officially started its activities with an online meeting on 30th April 2025, which gathered almost 100 participants!
This kick-off session created an inspiring opportunity to connect, collaborate, and start shaping the future of professional learning together.
- Keynote "Teacher professional development in the context of sustaining educational reform despite the war challenges" by Lilia Hrynevych (Vice-Rector at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and Supervisor of the Teachers’ Academy. Former Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine)
- Cooperative session in groups full of engaging conversations, valuable insights from the participants.
- Interactive activities for members: poll 1 "Which country are you joining us from?", poll 2 "What’s your superpower as a teacher/educator?", poll 3 "What is your takeaway from today’s webinar?"
Find the recording below:
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The TPD Club is a very valuable space for exchange. It would be interesting to explore how we can move from one-off trainings to more continuous, practice-based teacher development, such as peer learning, mentoring, and school-based approaches. Another important area is understanding what actually works in TPD, especially how to measure its real impact on teaching and student outcomes. The role of AI in supporting teachers — for example in lesson planning, feedback, and reflection — could also be a relevant topic. In addition, discussing micro-credentials and more flexible upskilling pathways for teachers, as well as approaches to inclusion and preparing teachers for diverse classrooms, would be very useful. Finally, strengthening the link between teacher professional development and labour market needs, particularly in TVET, could add strong practical value. It would also be great to include more real examples and cases from different countries to keep the discussions grounded and applicable.
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