Professional Development
Job-embedded professional development (JEPD) refers to teacher learning that is grounded in day-to-day teaching practice and is designed to enhance teachers’ content-specific instructional practices with the intent of improving student learning. It is primarily school or classroom based and is integrated into the workday, consisting of teachers working together to improve their professional practice as part of the cycle of continuous improvement. It is a shared, ongoing process that is locally rooted, with direct connections between learning and application in daily practice.
Job embedded professional development is a combination of formal and informal social interactions among the teachers, in the context of the school and the classrooms in which they teach, and distributed across the entire staff. When implemented effectively, JEPD has a positive impact on all teachers within a team or school by generating conservations among educators about the art of teaching and learning.
Teachers draw primarily from the professional knowledge that exists in their own school and among their colleagues, which is informed by other professional development opportunities that help teachers learn research-based practices. JEPD may consist of departmental, cross-departmental, grade-level, or “vertical” (i.e., across grade level) teams of teachers engaging in “interactive, integrative, practical, and results-oriented” work. Activities can include designs such as mentoring; coaching; action research; peer observation; examining student work; virtual coaching; lesson plan development.. Professional learning communities can be forums for job-embedded professional development.
ISTE Standards for Administrators ISTE Standards for Teachers
Job embedded professional development is a combination of formal and informal social interactions among the teachers, in the context of the school and the classrooms in which they teach, and distributed across the entire staff. When implemented effectively, JEPD has a positive impact on all teachers within a team or school by generating conservations among educators about the art of teaching and learning.
Teachers draw primarily from the professional knowledge that exists in their own school and among their colleagues, which is informed by other professional development opportunities that help teachers learn research-based practices. JEPD may consist of departmental, cross-departmental, grade-level, or “vertical” (i.e., across grade level) teams of teachers engaging in “interactive, integrative, practical, and results-oriented” work. Activities can include designs such as mentoring; coaching; action research; peer observation; examining student work; virtual coaching; lesson plan development.. Professional learning communities can be forums for job-embedded professional development.
ISTE Standards for Administrators ISTE Standards for Teachers