Teachers’ Experiences of Teacher Professional Development (TPD) Training: A Narrative Inquiry

Abstract

This research entitled Teachers’ Experiences of Teacher Professional Development: A Narrative Inquiry was an attempt to explore the teachers’ experiences of TPD training in terms of perception and practicality.In order to obtain the viable insight about their journey as teacher, I adopted the narrative inquiry as the research design. The study was based on both primary and secondary data. The participants were five primary level English teachers of Dhading district who have five years of teaching experiences and have participated in TPD training. The participants were selected using purposing non-random sampling strategy.I collected data through semi- structure interview.The collected data were first transcribed then analyzed thematically. Further, the findings also show that TPD training is demand based training that is taken by only government schools’ teachers for their professional development for 30 days to boost-up the immunity of the teachers and make them up-dated with changed curriculum. TPD training is an opportunity for the teachers because they have learnt different teaching strategies, teaching skills, and various techniques to increase the learning achievement of the learners by following child centered and interactive methods in the classroom. The present study consists of five chapters. Chapter one is an introductory chapter which includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related theoretical literature, review of the related empirical literature, implications of the review and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with methods and procedures of the study. It includes design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures and ethical consideration. The forth chapter is about the analysis and interpretation of the data and the final chapter consists the findings, conclusions and recommendations. The last section of this research includes the references and appendices.