Enhancing teacher engagement and expanding staff development opportunities

The European University Association’s 2025 Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group on ‘Enhancing teacher engagement and expanding staff development opportunities’ explored different approaches to organising, sustaining and expanding staff engagement in development opportunities. This report outlines the group’s findings, starting with the fundamental – typically systemic – challenges underlying limited staff engagement.

To tackle these challenges, the group identified three priorities:

• the need for adequate recognition of quality teaching,
• the key role of community-building and peer-exchange in teaching, and
• the importance of positive and purposeful communication about staff development opportunities.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Enhancing teacher engagement and expanding staff development opportunities

Report editors: Duncan Ross, Amanda Sykes, Kimberly Davis and Helene Peterbauer

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