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ONTARIO COLLEGE OF TEACHERS
Conceptual framework for ongoing professional learning
PROFESSIONAL INQUIRY
As you consider your own professional learning journey, you may want to reflect on the following self-directed inquiries:
• How can you critically reflect on the vast and multifaceted nature of professional learning for the teaching profession?
• How does this conceptual framework connect to your diverse experiences engaged in ongoing professional learning?
• Discuss how this conceptual framework can be used to inform your own ongoing professional learning.
• How can this conceptual framework be enhanced to reflect the evolving nature of ongoing professional learning?
• How does this conceptual framework support your journey of professional learning through designing your own concept map?
• Collaboratively design a concept map to illustrate a school or board’s engagement in ongoing professional learning to support school and/or board improvement plans.
Contexts that support ongoing professional learning
Professional learning takes place in a variety of diverse and wide-ranging contexts. These varying contexts, settings and forms help to foster the ongoing professional knowledge, skills, practices and values of educators. The self-directed learning that occurs in these various contexts is supportive and responsive to the continually evolving nature of teaching and learning in democratic communities.
The following professional learning matrix, Contexts that Support Ongoing Professional Learning: A Professional Learning Matrix (Figure 7), illustrates some of the contexts and processes that support educators’ engagement in ongoing professional learning. This matrix (Figure 7) lists the top 15 professional learning contexts and learning processes identified by members of the teaching profession through provincial consultations. It can serve as a reflective tool to further inquire into and explore professional practice.
10 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING FRAMEWORK