Abstract
Analysis of different educational systems around the world at
macro and micro level inform us that efforts made to bring
reforms and improve quality of education is fundamentally
linked with the quality of its teachers. Pakistani system of
education is no exception therefore to improve the quality of
education attention should be paid to the quality of our teachers.
In this era of rapid global changes education is highly subjected
to these changes, at the same time it is also the cause of change
in all other spheres of life. In comparison with world’s top
performing educational systems we find Pakistani educational
system far behind in quality and students’ performance.
Although efforts are made to improve the current situation but in
general the situation has hardly improved. No doubt extensive,
consistence and tested models of teachers’ professional
development can produce better result, but replication of such
models would be difficult in Pakistan where resources allocated
for education are comparatively limited. This paper also
highlights very concisely the future needs of teachers’
professional development in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) to
make our public education compatible and enhance students’
learning. This paper also suggest the integrated role of state,
society and teachers’ community to make sincere, serious and
systematic efforts to improve the existing situation and shoulder
the future needs of teachers professional development.
Muhammad Asif Khan, Arbab Khan Afridi. (2017) Professional Development of Teachers and its Future Needs , The Dialogue, Volume 12, Issue 2.
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