Teachers' Perceptions on the Role of Classroom Observation for their Professional Development

Abstract

The present thesis entitled " Teachers' Perceptions on the Role of Classroom Observation for their Professional Development " has been conducted to find out teachers 'perception on role of classroom observation for TPD. For this purpose, I selected thirty secondary level Englsih teachers from Nuwakot district and questionnaire was main research tool. The schools were selected by using Judgmental non-random sampling procedure. The main finding of the study was 'classroom observation play effective role for TPD'. The teachers were motivated from feedback provided by observer. Classroom observation helps to maintain the discipline in the classroom and helps teachers engaging in problem solving that occur in the classroom and then applying the new ideas. Classroom observation also help to improve lesson presentation in the class, making teaching materials, improve the way of using visual materials in the classroom and developed the communicative competence of the teachers. The study is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is introductory part. It includes background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the tidy, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of key terms. The second chapter deals with review of related literature and conceptual framework. The third chapter includes research design, population, sample and sampling strategy, study area, data collection tools and techniques, data collection procedure. The fourth chapter includes analysis of data and interpretation of results and summary and findings. In this section, both simple statistical and descriptive approach are used. The fifth chapter includes conclusion and recommendations. The references and appendices are included at the concluding part of this thesis.