Definition of Advanced Professional Practice

Advanced Professional Practice in education involves effective teaching/learning, behaviour management in and out of the classroom, acknowledging and accommodating special educational needs, leadership and management of staff and pupils, personal development, promoting equal opportunities in the work place and use of effective ICT. Moreover the advanced professional practitioners should be able to direct colleagues, through personal advice or inset days, so that they too can operate more effectively in their educational sector. All of the aforementioned skills are details in the Training and Development Agency (TDA) for schools(http://www.tda.gov.uk/upload/resources/pdf/s/standards_advancedskills.pdf) under the title of Advanced Skills Teachers.

In the UK advanced professional practitioners are usually Heads of Department, Senior Management or classroom teachers with an Advanced Skills Teacher accreditation. In the international schools setting this is different due to the demeographics of the teachers. Although Advanced Professional Practitioners should be members of the senior management team in any school.