Common use of Professional Learning Clause in Contracts

Professional Learning. (a) Valuable professional development is job-embedded, informed by research, done in partnership with colleagues. This does not preclude the scheduling of a valuable professional development which is not job-embedded and at which attendance is not mandatory. No information from professional development which is not job-embedded can be used in the Performance Appraisal of Experienced Teachers or the New Teacher Induction Process. (b) The success of a Catholic Professional Learning Community (CPLC) depends largely on the environment and the climate in which it is established. (c) Catholic Professional Learning Communities are most effective when the atmosphere within a school promotes a focus on learning, collegiality, respect for professionalism, a commitment to continuous learning, collective inquiry into best practice, innovation and experimentation to improve teaching and student learning. (d) A teacher’s Annual Learning Plan will inform Professional Learning opportunities funded through the professional learning allocation pursuant to the PDT Agreement and CPLC.

Professional Learning. (a) Valuable professional development is job-embedded, informed by research, done in partnership with colleagues. This does not preclude the scheduling of a valuable professional development which is not job-embedded and at which attendance is not mandatory. No information from professional development which is not job-embedded can be used in the Performance Appraisal of Experienced Teachers or the New Teacher Induction Process. (b) The success of a Catholic Professional Learning Community (CPLC) depends largely on the environment and the climate in which it is established. (c) Catholic Professional Learning Communities are most effective when the atmosphere within a school promotes a focus on learning, collegiality, respect for professionalism, a commitment to continuous learning, collective inquiry into best practice, innovation and experimentation to improve teaching and an student learning. (d) A teacher’s Annual Learning Plan will inform Professional Learning opportunities funded through the professional learning allocation pursuant to the PDT Agreement and CPLC.