Teachers' experiences on teacher training for their professional development

Abstract

This sturdy entitled Teachers’ Experiences on Teacher Training for their Professional Development attempted 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 Basic level English teachers of Darchula district who have minimum five years of teaching experiences to maximum ten years of teaching experience and have participated in TPD training. The participants were selected using purposing nonrandom sampling strategy. I collected data through using semi-structure interviews

and informal conversations. The collected data were first transcribed then analyzed

thematically.

Furthermore, the findings show that TPD training is demand based

training that is taken by only teachers of community schools for their professional

development for 30 days to develop the capacity of them to be up-dated with changed

curriculum.

Additionally, 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 student 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 considerations. The forth chapter is about the analysis and interpretation of the data and the final chapter consists of the findings, conclusions and recommendations. The last section of this research includes the reference and appendices