Teacher or Team? The Role of Individual and Team Resources in Collaborative Professional Development

In line with the importance of teacher teamwork, collaborative professional development (CPD) becomes more important. However, teacher collaboration often seems difficult to achieve because of its complex relationship with individual autonomous work. This tension is central to this study, integrating an individual and team perspective on CPD by investigating how individual resources (autonomy, collaborative attitude, teacher efficacy) and team resources (team entitativity, psychological safety) foster CPD. 731 teachers participated in two waves of data collection. The influence of the resources varied depending on which CPD activity was included as dependent variable (exchange activities, professional collaboration, constructive conflict). Overall, collaborative attitude, teacher efficacy, and team entitativity positively predict CPD, autonomy shows mixed results and psychological safety only fostered constructive conflict.status: publishe