Professional Development Enrichment training provided to teachers over a period of time to promote their development in all aspects of content and pedagogy.

Need and importance of professional development programmes Prepare teachers to play enhanced roles as resource persons where pre-service training programmes are of poor quality where state governments have recruited untrained teachers To address the needs of teachers through continued professional development and support.

Need and importance of professional development programmes  Explore, reflect on and develop one’s own practice.  Update about one’s academic discipline.  Research and reflect on learners and their education.  Understand and update oneself on educational and social issues.  Prepare for other roles professionally linked to education/teaching,  Break out of intellectual isolation and share experiences

Need and importance of professional development programmes universalization and inclusion.  Influence social attitudes  commitment to constitutional values  overcome discrimination in the classroom. practice more learner-friendly methods To achieve specific aspects in the curriculum, such as  the use of a type of technology,  AIDS  and adolescent education

Regional centers for Professional Development DIET  Continuous teacher professional development  Strengthening teacher education  Resource centre  Research and development/action research  Supervision, monitoring and support  Administration and Governance

Short and Long Term Courses

Summer Institutes

REFRESHER COURSE

WORKSHOP

SEMINAR

A conference for the discussion of some subject at which several speakers discuss a topic before an audienc e

Professional Conferences and Meetings

Professional Fora, Resource Rooms

Extension services for school teachers

Teacher Learning Centers (TLCs) in teacher education institutes can act as the hub of both pre-service teachers.

Professional Books and Journals

Action Research In undertaking action research, educators begin by asking how current practice might be improve learning

Use of Distance Media

Faculty Exchange and Fellowships

Sabbatical for Study and Research