Teacher's in-service professional development needs assessment–the Pakistani context

Pasha, A, Liu-Smith, Y-L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5277-0144 and Jeeva, S, 2019. Teacher's in-service professional development needs assessment–the Pakistani context. Journal of South Asian Studies, 7 (1), pp. 1-8. ISSN 2308-7846

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Abstract

This paper explains the study of conducting a survey to assess the professional development needs of the teachers in schools affiliated with Aga Khan University – Examination Board (AKU-EB) with the aim of strategizing and designing teacher development programmes. An online survey was carried out with questions regarding the demographic information, teachers’ current practices and their professional training needs. There were 306 teachers who participated in this survey from affiliated schools from the provinces of Sindh, Punjab, Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The results show that teachers expressed a preference in using lecturing as the main teaching method and familiarity with relevant IT skills to perform their tasks to a large extent. They indicated a greater need for content-based support, different classroom teaching methods, understanding the syllabus for lesson planning, and developing classroom assessments. Particularly, they emphasized a strong need for using technological resources to improve teaching and student learning. However, they were less interested in developing students’ critical thinking and in teaching students how to learn.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of South Asian Studies
Creators:	Pasha, A., Liu-Smith, Y.-L. and Jeeva, S.
Publisher:	EScience Press
Date:	2019
Volume:	7
Number:	1
ISSN:	2308-7846
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.33687/jsas.007.01.2820 DOI 1312906 Other
Rights:	© the author(s) 2019. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Linda Sullivan
Date Added:	28 May 2020 08:10
Last Modified:	24 Aug 2023 09:24
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/39903

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