The implication of teacher professional development in Karti Etifaq High School

Abstract

The main purpose of this research is to understand the practice of teacher’s professional development in Kart-e-Etifaq High School through using qualitative method and individual interview focusing on low outcome of students in exams, school’s activities, and lack of professional teachers as well as shortage of student’s interest. It’s highly crucial for both students and teachers because not only generate new knowledge relevant the practice of professional development but also it paves the ground for student’s learning and receiving good result. Finally, teachers received in-service-trainings entitled on methodology, girl’s education, disabled children, pedagogy, education, and management but do not received pre-service-training and most of them use out of trainings by using simple teaching techniques, taking special teaching-preparation, having good behaviors, respecting their teachers inside and outside the classes, improving their subject-knowledge applying various methods, having full collaboration among themselves and understanding the teaching process as a life-long learning journey while majority of teachers do not manage the classes but most teachers do not understand student’s learning styles as well as do not teach the content of subject-knowledge properly. In-short, most students do not like teacher’s grading, teaching and assignments as well as most of them are able to talk with their teachers friendly and easily.