Teachers' perceptions and practices of professional development activities

Abstract

activities and their practices of using those activities for their professional development. The sample populations of the study included thirty Secondary level English teachers of fifteen different schools of Kaski district who were selected through simple random sampling strategy. To fulfill the objectives of this study, questionnaire was used as an effective tool to obtain the data. The collected data were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively following simple statistical tools such as frequency count and percentage. The research findings showed that the teachers perceived self-monitoring, peer teaching, action research, keeping teaching portfolio, attending to seminar, workshop and conferences, sharing experiences, and reading and keeping writing to ELT journal as the major professional activities. Similarly, it has been found that more than 70% of the selected teachers practiced gaining knowledge from teacher support group, visiting to colleagues’ classes, attending to teachers’ conferences, undertaking action research, keeping portfolio and keeping writing on Journals as the professional activities. However, they did not much practice presentation in conference, reflective logs, team teaching and peer coaching as the professional activities. This study has been subsumed in five chapters. The first chapter consists of 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 key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with design of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures and data analysis procedures. The fourth chapter consists of analysis of data and interpretation of results and the summary of findings. The fifth chapter consists of conclusion and recommendations. Recommendations have been presented in policy related, practice related and further research related. The final part of the study consists of references and appendices.