Meeting of the New Learning Club on Teachers’ Professional Development (TPD)
Organised by the ETF Community of Innovative Educators/ New Learning Club on “Teachers Professional Development”
As education systems face increasing complexity, effective, inclusive, and sustainable TPD is more crucial than ever. This meeting offers a unique opportunity to explore what works in diverse contexts, and to co-create insights that can inform both local and regional policies and practices.
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.
📅 Date: 6 October 2025
🌍 Format: Online
RECORDING
Presentation slides from Irene Psifidou
AGENDA
🧩 Thematic Focus Areas
The meeting explored three key themes central to improving both teacher effectiveness and learner outcomes:
1. Teacher and Student Well-being
2. International TPD and Mobility
3. Peer-based TPD and Digital Platforms
Let your practice inspire others!
Join us in building a collective knowledge base for impactful teacher professional development. The New Learning Club on Teachers’ Professional Development is collecting practices to be published in a final output of the TPD Club. Read more: https://openspace.etf.europa.eu/blog-posts/teachers-professional-development-call-practices
🌿📚Reading Corner
1. Teacher and Student Well-being
- ERASMUS+ Project Co-creating wellbeing: https://cocreatingwellbeing.eu/ (shared by ATEE)
- ERASMUS+ Project SHE4AHA-Health throught life: https://healththroughoutlife.eu/ (shared by ATEE)
- ATEE Research and Development Communities (RDCs), structured around key themes and pressing issues in teacher education, both current and enduring. They provide a dynamic platform for professionals with shared interests to connect, learn from one another, and engage in collective growth.
- CEDEFOP's survey EVTS: https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/projects/vocational-teacher-survey
2. International TPD and Mobility
- European School Education Platform, a meeting point for the school education community
- eTwinning, provides a safe and free platform for teachers and pupils across Europe to work together on projects, discuss in online groups, exchange best practice and develop their professional skills.
3. Peer-based TPD and Digital Platforms
- Digital4All: project with insights on how to rethink pedagogy for digital environments (shared by All Digital)
- D-Paideia: project focused on strengthening teachers' digital competencies, by also adapting DigCompEdu
- SELFIE for TEACHERS - European Education Area, tool supporting teachers in building their digital competence
- Article: Teacher collaboration and students’ digital competence - evidence from the SELFIE tool,
European Journal of Teacher Education, published on behalf of ATEE - Cedefop’s VET toolkit for tackling early leaving provides rich resources to promote inclusion, identify and support learners at risk.
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