National Curriculum Training and Teachers' Professional Development

A Narrative Inquiry Curriculum & Professional Development of Student-Teachers in Farhangian University: Design Curriculum Model

The aim of the present study is to design and validate the narrative inquiry curriculum for professional development of student-teachers in Farhangian university. The model of narrative inquiry curriculum is grounded on the theories of Dewey, Bruner, Schwab, Vygotsky, Donald Schön, Clandinin and Connelly. In this model, learning is a reflective practice and experience-based practice. The studen...

Constructing the Curriculum: National Curriculum, Teachers' practice & Change

Exploring Economics Teachers Perceptions of the Training-of-Teachers Project as an Professional Development Strategy

South Africa is going through several education reforms in order to prepare more learners for challenges and success in the 21st century and beyond. A key to the success of the reforms is the quality of teachers and their teaching methods. A profound change in teacher practices is called for, which would entail theestablishment of sustainable enabling teachingand learning environments and condi...

Language Learning Materials Development for Teachers’ Professional Development

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...

Expectations of Teachers from Teachers Professional Development Program in Nepal

Teachers’ Professional Development (TPD) has been realized a powerful approach to implement child friendly activity based education for education in the twenty first century. Though there are at least six models of teachers development, teacher training is the mostly used model in Nepalese context. It has been realized the important of expectations of teachers in TPD program to make TPD bottom-...