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Missouri Teacher Development System (MTDS) is a framework designed to support teacher learning and career development in alignment to the Missouri Educator Evaluation System and the Missouri Leadership Development System (MLDS). The system was designed through collaborative partnerships between the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and Missouri's Regional Professional Development Centers (RPDCs). MTDS provides guidance for teachers and support for professional developers and trainers designing professional learning for teachers. Some MTDS programming is currently being offered through Missouri's RPDCs, who are continually working to expand MTDS aligned opportunities to meet the needs of teachers at every career level.

Career-Stage Development

Teaching is a career with different stages of development.

Explore MTDS Levels

Effective Professional Learning

MTDS emphasizes providing teachers with learning opportunities built on three research-based characteristics of professional learning.

Adult Learning

Sustained Duration

Job Embedded

MTDS Domains & Competencies of Teaching

The domains represent roles teachers play both within their classrooms and throughout the larger professional community. Teaching competencies have been organized within each domain to represent the work of teaching conducted from the lens of the domain. MTDS domains and competencies remain the same across all career-levels. However, level-specific learning statements provide insight into the progression of knowledge and skills leading to mastery of each competency. Visit each of the domains below to learn more about the competencies and the level-specific learning statements.