Professional Development of Teachers: Focus of NEP and Training for New Roles

Teachers play a very important role in the teaching learning space. There is a prerequisite for teachers to be updated with the newest methods, technology, and education trend that the current classroom requires. Professional development of involves an unceasing engagement that the teachers need to be involved to make them ever ready and ever equipped to handle teaching learning and students in the most effective way. There are different types of professional development programmes and approaches. There are many common and ongoing professional development programmes like seminar, workshop, orientation program, faculty development program etc. This paper reflects the different types of professional development programmes, the significance and listing the elements of effective professional development. Further, the main objective of this paper is to delve on the focus of NEP 2020 on professional development of teachers along with identifying the ways in which teachers are trained in the new roles expected of them.

Teachers, Professional Development, NEP 2020, New Roles

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