A Balanced Approach to Professional Development

The EEF’s Effective Professional Development guidance report highlights essential building blocks – or mechanisms – which can help to bring about changes in teacher behaviours and improve pupil outcomes.

When professional development includes at least one mechanism from each group, it is more likely to be embedded into regular practice (EEF, 2021). Furthermore, the more mechanisms we include within PD, the more likely it is to positively impact upon pupils’ attainment.

To support the designers and leaders of professional development in schools to maximise the potential for change afforded by professional development, the EEF has produced this animation to introduce the essential mechanisms of effective professional development, and to show how these work together to form the balanced approach to PD professional development design.

Access the Effective Professional Development guidance report and supporting tools here: https://eef.li/epd