TeachersPRO (Sinapsia Group Finland Oy)

TeachersPRO is a community-driven platform based on a unique post-course

instructional design in 3 circles of support (peer-to-peer, learning analytics for

institutional support, and AI Mentoring) that ensures transfer to professional practice

through Learning Challenges within a framework of 16 critical competencies and more

than 100 skills based on the best of Finnish pedagogy for teacher professional

development.

This platform allows individual or collective Learning Challenges to be carried out,

through cutting edge content for dozens of skills, a peer-to-peer evidence review system

and access to thousands of good real practices of other teachers in the international

TeachersPRO community that currently has more than 30,000 users. Access to this

content is granted permanently and forever to all users in their own teaching portfolio,

where all their historical activity and professional development are also recorded. This

Professionalization Virtual Environment (PVE) for teachers includes recognition in the

form of badges, metrics, academic diplomas, and the possibility of certifying teaching

competencies with University of Turku (Finland). For educational entities, it includes a

powerful tool for tutoring, mentoring, and coaching of each teacher, through access to

real evidence of his/her learning achievement in a portfolio, thus guaranteeing the

transfer to their professional practice. This solution has proven its effectiveness, being

able to increase the transfer to practice from the usual 10-15% in traditional teaching

training to 70-80% in the first year (Malpica, F. & Navareño, P. , 2018).