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Needs of Continuing Professional Development of College Faculty in Lahore
Abstract
The present research is designed to explore the needs of continuing professional development of college faculty (CPD) in Lahore. Limited education budgets in developing countries may not allow implementation continuous professional development system and, therefore, researcher proposed that government hire a team of educational experts who work on training of a small number of master trainers that give on job training to untrained teachers in their respective colleges. This system of continuous professional development well in the limited financial resources of Lahore Government and, therefore, has been suggested in the present work for upcoming provincial teachers training projects. The proposed system of CPD has been designed according to teachers training needs of Lahore based colleges. In this qualitative research the related data was collected from interviews of 24 teachers of 18 Girls’ degree colleges where CPD is not followed at present. The interviewed teachers supported the proposed the suggest involvement of Government supervised master trainers to develop education skills of college teachers thereby improving the provincial education system.
Authors
Amna Naushahi
Ph. D Scholar, Department of Education, University of Education, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Ashiq Hussain Dogar
Controller of Examinations, Department of Education, University of Jang, Punjab, Pakistan
Shaista Syeda
Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Education, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
College Faculty, Continuing Professional Development, Module of Training, Needs of Training, Teacher Training
