Peer Coaching for Teachers' Professional Development

Abstract

The present study entitled "Peer Coaching for Teachers’ Professional Development" aimed at finding out practices of peer coaching as a strategy for teachers’ professional development. This research study was consisted of primary and secondary sources of data. For primary data, forty English teachers of secondary level were selected from Okhaldhunga district. Forty English language teachers of secondary level were selected by applying non- random judgmental sampling procedure. During the period of data collection, I distributed the questionnaires. After the study it was found that most of the teachers are aware of peer coaching and professionalism. The teachers viewed that professionalism will be well developed when they actually adopt peer coaching for their own learning. Training, workshops, books, journals are the ways of collecting issues for peer coaching practices. This study consists of four chapters. The first chapter includes the general background, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with methodology; how the research was carried out. It includes sources of data, population of the study, sample population, sampling procedure, tools for data collection, process of data collection and limitations of the study. The third chapter is the main part of the study which includes analysis and interpretation of the data. The final chapter deals with the findings and recommendations of the study followed by references and appendices.