Dear INEE members,Beginning on Monday, 04 February 2013, INEE will be hosting a three-month online special forum on Teacher Professional Development in Crisis. This discussion series addresses the poor quality of professional development provided to many teachers across the globe. It will include guest contributions by internationally recognized experts, practitioners, teachers and specialists in professional development from Europe, Asia, Africa, the United States, and the Middle East.The goal of this forum is to gather promising ideas and practices to initiate a body of knowledge and consensus of “what works”. This information may be useful to those who design, fund, and implement teacher professional development programs—particularly in the most fragile and under-resourced locations.

Each Monday (for 12 weeks from February to April) a guest author will post on a specific issue related to teacher professional development. The online post will then be open for your personal views and responses, and for participation in the ensuing discussions. The first discussion, entitled Teacher Professional Development in Crisis – How can we begin to move forward? is now open.

We look forward to many lively discussions*!

The forum is organized and facilitated by Mary Burns, Senior Technology Specialist, Education Development Center, USA and James Lawrie, Education Advisor, War Child International, Netherlands.

Sincerely,
INEE Secretariat

*Participation in the online discussions requires login, so if you don’t yet have an INEE account, please join us (it is free): www.ineesite.org/join.