Not exact matches
In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a
positive impact on student
outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to work collaboratively to
learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional
learning culture that provides a safe and authentic environment for professional enquiry and
ensuring school leaders take an active role in developing professional
learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.
The existence of an orderly
learning environment throughout the school — established through
positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to
ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and
learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student
learning outcomes can be based.
Frameworks provide guidelines for curriculum used in specific states or provinces that
ensure learning experiences in child care are varied, holistic, and align with what is known from early childhood development research to be important for
positive child
outcomes.