The RESPOND Teacher Professional Profile and Portfolio for Global Competence

This paper presents the first product of the RESPOND European Erasmus+ project on the mutually sustaining relationship between teacher professional development and overall school development. The focus is on the RESPOND Teacher Professional Profile and Portfolio for Global Competence, developed as a tool for building a teacher professional profile and promoting a self-assessment process within a framework of sustainable teacher professional development in professional learning environments and communities. The paper presents an overview of the RESPOND project, illustrates each of the components of the profile and portfolio, and concludes with a reflection on the aims and the intended impact of the tool. [Publisher's Text].