How do you design professional development for all your staff that truly meets IB requirements?
For IB World Schools, this means creating professional learning that is collaborative, ongoing, and impactful—not just a series of one-off sessions.
These pages offer practical guidance to help you design staff learning that meets these expectations while building a strong culture of collaboration.
How do adults learn? Explains the principles of adult learning, helping you design PD that is relevant, experience-based, and grounded in teachers’ real contexts.
What's the key to engaging adults in learning? : Focuses on motivation, showing how purpose, agency, and respect for expertise increase staff engagement in PD.
Planning professional development Provides a structure for designing PD that is purposeful, coherent, and aligned with school priorities.
Characteristics of effective professional development | learning Outlines what high-quality PD looks like, emphasising collaboration, sustained learning, and classroom impact.
Professional Learning : Shifts the focus from ‘development’ to ‘learning’, highlighting the importance of ongoing, embedded and collaborative approaches.
Reflecting on reflection! Shows how structured reflection deepens learning and ensures that professional development leads to meaningful change.
Evaluating Professional Learning Helps you measure impact, ensuring PD leads to improvements in teaching and student outcomes.
Developing our professional learning culture : Explains how to build a culture of trust, collaboration, and continuous improvement across a school.
Developing collaboration : Offers practical strategies for embedding collaboration into everyday practice, making it central to professional learning.
These pages together provide a clear roadmap for designing professional learning that not only meets IB requirements, but also supports meaningful, collaborative growth across your staff.