Influence Of Professional Development Programs On Teachers’ Career Development At Public Schools Of Karachi Sindh, Pakistan

Abstract

This paper contains the discussion and finding about the teachers training and career development of government school in district South of Karachi. There have been efforts by the Department of Education and Literacy to invigorate the Teacher Training establishments for a long time now. In 2006, the education department decided to revive 42 teachers training institutes with the help of Canadian Debt Swap Assistance (Dawn, Aug 2006). This was planned after an assessment that the teachers hardly understood the material they taught and due to lack of pre service and in service training they could not manage class effectively, it was decided that the funds would be utilized to renovate the buildings of such institutions. According to the plan 510 faculty member of elementary education colleges were trained, 90 head teachers and 2700 Primary teachers and 690 Master Trainers were also trained. Vehicles were also provided and it was announce that all such training institutes will be converted into Professional Development Centers for the continuous training and career development of the teachers. However, the huge impact this initiative was supposed to make could not be seen on the ground and the results were not seen. This study is inspired by the efforts made for teacher training all over the country to see what impact those efforts have on ground and whether or not our schools have inservice trainings for teachers.