Teachers' training as a scaffolding tool for professional development in ELT

• Main Author: Agravat, Mayurkumar R.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2014
• Subjects: English teachers—Education (Continuing education); Language and Literacy Education
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5515
• Institution: De La Salle University

Modern century has brought paramount change and need in developing holistic view of education. There is a formative redesigning in innovations, competitive field, psychological development in employees/teachers/students' attitudes, approaches and eventually catering need for personal as well as professional development. In every field, there is a need for development holistically. Education is a field which regales all the demands of students, teachers and of the institutions. Only this field has wide variety of activities so as to form overall development of the person. But on the otherside, our teachers who are expected to be goal-oriented, active and researcher are less motivated and goal-oriented. Many of the educators do not want to develop themselves professionally and eventually there is a dearth of holistic development of the teachers as well as of students. Professional development and self-reflection are the tools which give ways for the further initiatives leading towards competitive environment and hence quality education. There is a need for such training and education. ELT field is ever developing field with every nuances of it. It has given scopes for many researchers to be professionally developed. The current paper will focus on the need and scope for teachers' continuous professional development (CPD).