Abstract
The main objective of the study was to evaluate the teaching practices of the public sector primary school teachers in light of the national professional standards (NPS) approved by the Ministry of Education (MoE) on 23rd February 2009 in collaboration with the financial support of the USAID. The program was named as STEP which stands for strengthening Teacher Education Program. The study was delimited to National professional standards for teachers which are by and large related to classroom instruction and can be observed in the natural setting. For data collection, a criteria based observational checklist was constructed. Data was collected from 360 public sector primary school teachers of District Peshawar. Collected Data, for each standard, was analyzed through mean score. Findings of the study showed that majority of the teachers didn’t perform as per National Professional Standards. So, it was recommended that Education department should chalk out a widespread program for the training and supervision of public sector primary school teachers regarding National Professional Standards.
Rahim Khan,, Saif ul Islam. (2015) An Evaluation of National Professional Standards of Public Sector School Teachers at Primary Level in District Peshawar, The Dialogue, Volume 10, Issue 4.
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