A model of Self-Directed Professional Learning
General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)
Transforming lives through learning
A model of Self-Directed Professional Learning
To be effective and
worthwhile this learning
needs to happen through
structured relevant and
meaningful activity that
enables the individual to
question, try out, and
develop to enhance
practice.
Emphasises the need for
the individual to be
curious and critically
explore as part of the
leaning process; to be
asking questions. Use
professional standards to
help form these questions.
High quality professional
learning is almost impossible to
do in isolation. Opportunity to
learn with and through others
must be maximised. Through
dialogue we can make sense of
and develop meaning. The
learning with or form others can
take many forms.
General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)
Transforming lives through learning
Needs to be sufficient
cognitive focus that really
seeks to challenge and
develop ideas, inform and
question assumptions,
extend knowledge and
skills and deepen
understandings of
practice; there must be
some cognitive element to
the professional learning.