Creating the engine room for professional learning: Explaining a research-based model

Teachers as learners Teachers are also learners. They learn through their engagement with a knowledge base, through their immersion in practice contexts and through their relationships with others. Teachers’ learning determines how their practice develops over time and what impact their work has on students, colleagues and the settings in which they work. Working with a mentor, for example, might help an early career teacher to engage positively with real behaviour challenges by connecting training content, reading, gaining experience through trialling new approaches and reflecting on them with support. The mentor might use an observation framework to track changes in classroom practices and the teacher might use a reflective journal log to stimulate ongoing reflection. A model of professional learning developed through abductive analysis As a teacher educator and researcher, I have undertaken research related to teachers’ professional learning. This body of research led to a co