REFLECTION – MINI RESEARCH PRESENTATION

REFLECTION – MINI RESEARCH PRESENTATION

Darvesh Karim

Assistant Instructor

Professional Development Center, North

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When we eager to know more about a specific knowledge, then it is essential to have a thorough scrutiny, not a single sided dimension but the maximum possible dimensions of it to have a reliable grasp of validated information. In this connection the cohort of M.Ed. 2009 was more than lucky to observe the multi dimensional practical approaches about Teachers Professional Development, as our senior batch (M.Ed. 2009) had actually explored the phenomenon in three different educational set-ups and they shared all their findings with us. It was in its nature multi dimensional information for me to understand the practices of professional development of teachers, while taking all these information and working in Group, also gave me a practical approach of collegiality, mutual cooperation, and distributed leadership to learn as a teacher. I was privileged to work with two dynamic, adaptive and creative colleagues who represent the essential qualities of effective teacher-leadership in them. Yes; the group members; Karima Damani and Abbas Motiwala. I really appreciate their kindness, generosity and knowledge sharing attitude. It was an excellent experience to work closely with these nice fellows having different capabilities like intensive reading and finest articulation skills.  Amalgamation of these capabilities, in my opinion was the patronizing and driving factor for understanding the topic more clearly and presenting it in front of our colleagues and facilitators efficiently.

I understand that here is changing and reforms in education sector all around the world. One of the key elements in most of these reforms is the professional development of teachers. Societies are acknowledging that teachers are the most significant change agents. This role of teacher in educational reforms makes the field of teacher professional development a growing and challenging area. Definitely to bring change in teaching strategies, teachers need to be aware of the new ways of teaching. Even the best and brilliant teachers need professional knowledge to learn about teaching and learning strategies (Rizvi & Elliott, 2007). The most important thing, I realized during this mini study that in such types of programs, teachers from divers perspectives and divers background of content and pedagogical knowledge have the opportunity to learn from each others by sharing their ideas and reflections. Apart from this, I inspired by the follow up program which is part of some of the institutions. I understand that follow-up is necessary to retain the learning and find out the areas for need improvement and it also makes the teacher conscious and responsible to effectively apply skills and knowledge learnt from the courses and workshops.