Standards for Professional Learning

The NEI uses and advocates for Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning, a system that offers educators the latest knowledge and insights to design, implement, and sustain high-quality professional learning.

The National Educators’ Institute uses and advocates for the use of Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning. As noted on their website, these standards “describe the conditions, content, and processes for professional learning that leads to high-quality leading, teaching, and learning for students and educators.” Learning Forward, 2022

Learning Forward provides a suite of tools and resources to support effective implementation of the standards. All are found on their website.

https://standards.learningforward.org/

The NEI provides an Introduction to the Standards for Professional Learning course, where you interact with other Bermuda based educators to learn about the standards. 

All information on this page derives from Learning Forward’s Standards for Professional Learning website. Here, we present the eleven standards as individual documents, to assist educators who would prefer the standards in a downloadable format. Changes made to the original text to reflect Bermuda’s education organisational structure and roles are displayed in brackets. Note, these documents are not copies of the Standards for Professional Learning books on sale by Learning Forward. Those are more comprehensive and can be purchased on the Learning Forward website.

Rigorous Content For Each Learner

The essential content of adult learning that leads to improved student outcomes.

Equity Practices

Curriculum Assessment & Instruction

Professional Expertise

Transformational Processes

The process elements of professional learning, explaining how educators learn in ways that sustain significant changes in their knowledge, skills, practices, and mindsets.

Equity Drivers

Evidence

Learning Designs

Implementation

Conditions for Success

The aspects of the professional learning context, structures, and cultures that undergird high-quality professional learning.

Equity Foundations

Culture of Collaborate Inquiry

Leadership

Equity Foundations