Professional Teacher Development Programme

What is Teacher development?

Today Teacher training and development programs are necessary for organizations as well as individuals. Teacher training helps teacher to improve their knowledge of their subjects and different teaching practices. A teacher development program is a prospective teachers way into the profession that would help teachers to

• To learn new teaching techniques
• Understand language skills
• Implement new ideas and activities in classrooms.

Teacher development program is a continuous process for teachers which will contributes to the process of teacher education. Professional teacher development involves attending different training courses and workshops for teachers that help teachers improve their skills. Gaining self-confidence and developing teaching ability, both are interdependent on one another.  Many Schools and organization, for the past several years, are working  together to help states implement effective teacher development and evaluation systems carefully designed to improve teacher practice and, ultimately, student learning.

Why teacher development program is necessary?

Teacher professional development keeps teachers up to date on new techniques of how children learn. Since a professional teacher is necessary for a student to be successful, it becomes important for every teacher to continue learning everything they can in order to improve their teaching skills and implement new teaching methods in organizations. Since the job of a teacher is so complex and ever-changing, it is very important for teachers to be constantly aware of new opportunities for growth.
An effective professional-development program, designed to address the gap, is job-embedded and provides teachers with five critical elements:

• Collaborative learning –
• Links between curriculum, assessment, and professional-learning
• Active learning to apply new knowledge.
• Deeper knowledge of subject and how to teach it
• Sustained learning, over several days and weeks

Benefits of teacher training and development programs

• Professionally trained teacher enhances the quality of education services offered to students.
• New and improved professional knowledge is acquired which increases the overall quality of education.
• Teachers learn new learning skills which can be applied in classrooms.
• Teacher development programs helps teachers to gain confidence which would be a plus point for students as well as organizations.
• Teachers have new goals to work towards and increased motivation.
• Professional Teacher Development programs can help teachers to explore new teaching ideas.
• It boost teachers' careers, preparing them for supervisory positions

At DriveChange, we have developed Principal and Teacher Development modules and professional teacher development programs that can be customized to your learning environment and delivered in bit-sized chunks through out the school year.