Teachers' professional development in Poland includes activities to support maintaining and improving professional skills, both inside and outside of schools. It involves various forms of training, including advisory support, self-directed learning, in-school training, distance learning, and higher education. The system is regulated by the Ministry of Education and decentralized to regional and local authorities. Funding comes from national, regional, and local budgets. Key aspects of development include subject-specific competencies, teaching skills, evaluation, and implementing annual priority areas set by the Ministry of Education.

1. POLAND

2. Teachers’ professional
development means all
activities that support
teachers' professional
development, maintaining
and improving their
professional skills -
organized in all available
forms.

3. OUTSIDE
SCHOOL
OUTSIDE
SCHOOL
INSIDE
SCHOOL

4. Methodological
advisory
Self-directed
development
In-school
training
Distance
learning
Promotion
levels
Higher
education
TTC
Continuing
education
INSIDE SCHOOL
OUTSIDE SCHOOL

5. • Teacher advisor:
• Higher education level
• Appointed or mastered teacher
• Innovating, creative
• Aims of teacher advisor:
• Supporting teachers
• Organising conferences once a semester
• providing consultations

6. The teacher gets
acquainted with the
methodological
literature
conducts educational
researches
creates didactic
materials
Individual teacher
self-education is
supported by
appropriate
publishing policy and
access to
a network of
pedagogical libraries.

9. Proffesional
promotion
levels:
Teacher
trainee
contract
teacher
Appointed
teacher
Mastered
teacher

10. Teachers’ competences
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substantive competences
psychological and pedagogical competences
diagnostic competences
planning and design competences
didactic-methodic competences
communication competences
media competences
control and evaluation competences
competences for evaluation of programs and school handbooks
auto-productive competences

11. Teachers’ competences
Teachers
know
What?
How?
When?
Why?

12. Creating a
professional
developing
plan
Implementing
the plan
getting an
appraisal of
the
achievements
exam

13. Using online
platforms
videoconferences
Using mobile
applications

15. Regulation of
Ministry of National
Education on teacher
training centers from
29th September 2016
specifying tasks and
responsibilities of
each type of TTC.

16. Organizational structure of the teacher training
system
Teacher training
centres led by
communes and
district self-
governments
Public regional teacher
training centres run by
regional self-government
Public national teacher training centres run
by the Minister of National Education
(ORE, CKE, CIE, Ośrodek Rozwoju Polskiej
Edukacji za Granicą)

17. Non-public centres
run by legal
or
physical persons

18. Teacher trainers:
appointed or mastered teachers
with knowledge specific to a
given area of activity
with higher education degree
with skills in andragogy
with general didactics skills
at least 5 years in education

19. implementation of the state's education policy
Workshops
Conferences, seminars
Teacher’s network
Courses
Competitions
Observing exams
Creating, realising educational projects for teachers
Creating, realising educational projects for students

20. Educational Authority
The Ministry of Education is responsible for almost whole
system of education. The only exception is higher education and
some artistic schools.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education is responsible for
higher education.
The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage is responsible for
artistic schools as regards core curricula for artistic subjects
while general education is based on core curricula issued by the
Minister of National Education.

21. Educational Authority
The national educational policy is developed and
carried out centrally, while the administation of
education and the running of schools and other
educational establishments are decentralised.
The local authorities-communes (gminy) are
responsible for the administration of public
kindergartens, primary school.

22. Educational authority
The districts (powiaty) administer secondary
general, vocational schools, artistic, sports and
public special schools, lifelong education centres,
psychological and pedagogical support centres and
district teacher training centres.
The regions (województwa) are responsible for
regional teacher training centres, pedaogical
libraries, and schools and institutions of regional
and supraregional importance.

23. There are also the regional educational superintendents’ offices ( kuratoria
oświaty).
They are responsible for pedagogical supervision in schools.
The regional superindendent ( kurator oświaty) is the chef educational officer
at the regional level.
He implements the policy of the Minister of National Education.
The most important task for him is pedagogical supervision over public and
non-public schools and educational institutions and teacher training centres.
Educational authority

24. Priority training aspects/competences
Each year there are priorities
of the Minister of National
Education.
Strategy for each voivodeship

25. ORDINANCE of MINISTER OF NATIONAL
EDUCATION, November 10, 2015
amending the ordinance on the way of
allocating funds to support professional
development of teachers between the
budgets of individual voivods, forms of
professional development co-financed
from the budgets of school governing
bodies, voivods, the minister responsible
for education and upbringing, and
detailed criteria and procedure for
granting these funds.
Economic managment

26. Economic managment
• The Ministry of National Education, which runs the central
teacher training centers, commissions the implementation of
nationwide teacher improvement tasks. It is intended for
5,000 average salaries of the trainee teacher.
• The division of funds for supporting in the area of the
voivodeship professional development of teachers is carried
out by the minister of education, taking into account the
number of teachers employed in individual voivodships.
• The comunes and district-government can alocate 1% of
teacher’s salaries for finacing teacher’s development.

27. Legal regulations
• Educational Law from December 14, 2016
(Prawo oświatowe)
• Teacher’s Card, January 26 982 r. with changes from June,22 2017
• Regulation of Ministry of National Education on teacher training centers from 29th
September 29, 2016 (Rozporządzenie Ministra Edukacji Narodowej z dnia 29 września
2016 r. w sprawie placówek doskonalenia nauczycieli)
• ORDINANCE of MINISTER OF NATIONAL EDUCATION, November 10, 2015 amending
the ordinance on the way of allocating funds to support professional development of
teachers between the budgets of individual voivods, forms of professional
development co-financed from the budgets of school governing bodies, voivods, the
minister responsible for education and upbringing, and detailed criteria and
procedure for granting these funds.
• 29 marca 2002 r. ORDINANCE of MINISTER OF NATIONAL EDUCATION, March 29, 2002
on the way of allocating funds to support professional development of teachers
between the budgets of individual voivods, forms of professional development co-
financed from the budgets of school governing bodies, voivods, the minister
responsible for education and upbringing, and detailed criteria and procedure for
granting these funds.