Understanding What Enables High Quality Professional Learning

This report draws on a range of published research and other evidence to address the question “what are the characteristics of high quality professional learning for practitioners in education?”  Our main interest is in the features of professional learning, for teachers and their leaders, which lead to benefits for their pupils and students but we also looked at the quality of the experiences for the teachers and leaders themselves. In addition, we examined the literature for evidence about the relative merits of professional learning delivered by direct, face-to-face methods in comparison to distance/online learning approaches