Teacher Professional Development programs are key to ongoing career development and promotion. Teachers teaching IB subjects participate in regular focused workshops and professional development activities.
Teachers teaching local curriculums undertake professional development activities and in some cases are required to comply with published teaching standards like; Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), Queensland College of Teachers (QCE), and Victoria Institute of Teachers (VIT), sciPointTM Professional Development ePortfolios:
- Provide a central space for storing all evidence of professional development activities;
- Offer a personal space for professional reflections;
- Empower teachers to keep a valuable record of their professional development;
- Map activities and associated evidence to published teaching standards for each teacher;
- Evolve into a lifelong digital archive of each teacher's professional development experiences;
- Show career development over time;
- Can be published to selected audiences as eRésumés for teaching positions;
- Demonstrate compliance with teaching standards for accrediting agencies.