Ten key features of Professional Review and Development

To ensure a positive PRD experience for all and to achieve the ten key features of high-quality PRD we must strive to make sure:

• there is a positive climate and culture of trust in schools
• schools have ensured they are prepared and ready to engage in high-quality PRD
• there is ongoing professional dialogue between colleagues.

The ten key features can be divided into three sections: Ethos, Professional Learning and Process and Practice.

Ethos

• Nurture teacher professionalism, building professional capital.
• Enable empowerment and develop teachers as agents of change.
• Celebrations of success and planning for future next steps.
• Offer a reflective space to explore successes and challenges.

Professional Learning

• Self-evaluation across the Professional Standards.
• Ongoing engagement in meaningful professional learning and reflection.
• Explore leadership opportunities.
• Support strategic development.

Process and Practice

• Career conversations
• Coaching conversations

Ten key features of PRD wheel