Elective teachers waste time in generic professional development sessions that ignore their subject-specific needs and fail to provide dedicated time for curriculum planning.

Workarounds Described

• Elective teachers forced to participate in generic math data analysis tasks irrelevant to their own subjects
• Teachers are told to plan an entire trimester of lessons during PD but given no dedicated time to do it
• Teacher must build entire curriculum from scratch for 4 grades without allocated planning time

Implied Software Gaps

• A PD platform that allows elective teachers to collaborate on subject-specific data collection and analysis within their own department
• A scheduling tool that carves out guaranteed curriculum development and lesson planning time during PD days
• A curriculum planning app with templates and project testing features for teachers developing programs from scratch

PD Match for Electives

A platform that helps schools personalize professional development for elective teachers by matching them with relevant workshops, facilitating departmental collaboration, and scheduling protected curriculum planning time. It replaces generic, time-wasting PD with targeted, role-specific learning and productivity.