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New Jersey's Professional Development Standards

The information linked from this page helps you find ways to meet New Jersey's professional development standards. Click on the standard below to access resources to support your professional development.

• For a quick self-check, the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) has created twenty multiple-choice questions to enable you to assess yourself. (And you may also check the answers!) What Is Your Professional Development IQ?
• See also New Jersey's professional development standards and draft teacher standards.

1.	Enhances knowledge of subject content.
2.	Improves understanding of the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of each learner and ensures that educators utilize appropriate teaching skills to enable students to meet or exceed their potential.
3.	Reflects best available interpretations of relevant knowledge, including empirical research and the consensus of professional opinion in teaching, learning, and leadership.
4.	Encourages educators to develop a variety of classroom based assessment skills.
5.	Provides for integrating new learning into the curriculum and the classroom.
6.	Is based on knowledge of adult learning and development.
7.	Is periodically assessed to show its impact on teaching practice and/or student learning.
8.	Results from clear, coherent, strategic planning that is embraced and supported by the district's governing body and by all levels of the school system.
9.	Develops a school culture that fosters continuous improvement and that challenges traditional roles and relationships among educators.
10.	Is supported by the intellectual and financial commitment which enables the achievement of professional development plans.
11.	Is supported by sufficient time during working hours to engage in collegial consultation and learning and to support professional development.
12.	Empowers educators to work effectively with parent and community partners.