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The needs of the beginning teacher are very different from those of a teacher leader. Their learning should be too.

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Recruitment & Retention Grants

New Course Design Guidance

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Exploring & Aspiring

Investigating Teaching and Learning

K-12 Career Pathway Programs
Higher Education Survey Courses

Exploring & Aspiring level learning emphasizes observing, analyzing, and experiencing best practices of teaching and learning. The learning is designed in such a way to be engaged with from the lens of the teacher as well as that of the student.

Course A

Course B

Course C

Print: Level-Specific Program Guidance

MTDS Programs

Emerging I

Meets BTAP Requirement

Relationships
Environment
Engagement
Profession

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Emerging II

Pre-Requisite: BTAP

Lesson Planning
Student Progress
Differentiation
Collaboration

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Developing I

Missouri Teacher Academy

Responsive Design
Action Research
Engagement
Reflective Practice

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Developing II

Pre-Requisite: Developing I

Innovation
Inquiry & interdisciplinary

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Mastering C

Coaching & Mentoring

Role of Coach & Mentor
Coaching Conversations
Mentoring New Teachers

Learning Information

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Mastering D

Serving within a District

Coach & Mentor
Cooperating Teacher
Committees
Critical Reflection

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The MTDS Framework

About Missouri Teacher Development System

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.