Strategies Used by Schools for professional Development of English Language Teachers

Abstract

The present research work entitled Strategies Used by School for Professional Development of English Language Teachers was carried to find out strategies used by schools for professional development of English language teachers. I selected two secondary level English teachers from Syangja District, especially Walingarea, among, them one from public school and another from private school. The respondents were selected by using non- random sampling procedure. The data were collected by using in-depth interview and observation. The research design was case study. The collected data were analysed and interpreted descriptively. The major finding of this study was schools have positive attitude towards teachers’ professional development strategies. They had adopted various strategies for their English language teachers’ professional development. They said that it is the way for developing teachers’ skills, knowledge, technique, methods of teaching activities and it supports to adjust in new practice of teaching field. On the other side, it can be good way for English language teachers’ to find out classroom problems such as how to control large class, how to control students’ noise while conducting teaching – learning activities and they know how to address these problems by using different techniques and methods. Both public and private schools’ English language teachers said that byadopting different strategies of teachers professional development, we get chance to become energetic, laborious, research oriented. This research work is divided in to five different chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction of the study. It consists of the background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, and limitation of the study and operational definition of key terms. Likewise, the second chapter deals with the review of theoretical as well empirical literature. It also consists of implication of review of the study and conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedure for the study. It consists of research design, population, and sample, sampling procedures, source of data, data collection tools, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedure. Similarly the fourth chapter deals with results and discussion. The fifth chapter consists of findings, conclusions and implications of the study in policy level, practice level, and provide some recommendations for further research followed by references and appendix