Role of In-Service Teacher Training for Secondary Level Teachers' Professional Development: A Narrative Inquiry

Abstract

This research study entitled Role of In-Service Teacher Training for Secondary Level Teachers' Professional Development: A Narrative Inquiry was carried out to find out the role and benefits of in-service teacher training for secondary level teachers' professional development. Keeping the objectives in to considerations, five secondary level English in-service trained teachers were selected as the sample by using purposive non-random(convenient) sampling strategy. Data for this study were collected by conducting semi-structured interview with the selected participants/ teachers. I have visited and revisited the study area to collect and validate the data. After the collection of the data they are categorized into seven themes.From the study it was found that, there were so many benefits and positive role of in-service teacher training for successful professional development. According to respondents' experiences it was found that,in-service teacher training is really beneficial which has number of benefits and positive role such as; to enhance different kinds of content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge,skills, how to reduce students' misbehavior through knowledge of classroom management,develop confidence, to build sense of co-operation, to use teaching materials related to content and most importantly to develop positive attitude towards teaching profession. The present study consists of five main chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study along with the 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. These condchapter contains the review of related theoretical literature, review of empirical literature, implications of the study for the study and conceptual framework. Similarly, the chapter third includes design of the study,population, sample, sampling strategies, source of data (primary and secondary),data collection tools,data collection producers, and ethical considerations. Likewise, chapter four deals with the analysis and inter pretation of results. Finally, the fifth chapter encompasses overall findings,conclusion and recommendations related to policy level, practice level and further research related. The study ends with references and appendices.