Submitted bySUMAYYA .K

Physical scienceRoll no:38

Professional development program for science teachers

Professional development program is a term that may be used to describe the availability of learning opportunity that will allow persons operating in any field to build, strengthen or enhance skills, knowledge and competencies within a specified domain or in a new domain altogether..

Professional organization or professional association is usually non profit organization seeking to further a particular profession, the interest of individual s engaged in that profession and public interest.

Professional organization

NSTA :National science Teacher AssociationAETS :Association for the Education of

Teachers in scienceAAPT: American Association of Physics

teacherAAAS: American Association for the

Advancement of Science.NAS: National Academy of Science

Educational organization

The word seminar is derived from the Latin word seminarium, meaning "seed plot.

A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to actively participate.

Seminar

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Conference is a meeting of people who confer about topic.

Conference of teachers ,experts, educators and educationalist can be organized for broad discussion of educational subject like revision of school curriculum, selection of text book adoption of new methods of teaching and evaluation ,guidance for gifted children ,problem of handicapped children etc…..

Conference

It helps to make significant difference in the quality of teaching in urban school.

This program design to foster collaborative communities of research and practisioners.

It provide research based program which focus on developing and sustaining parent involvement and leadership.

Needs and significance

It refer to education that a teacher receive s when he has entered the teaching professional after he had his education in a college of education .It includes all the refresher course that he receives in different

institutions.

In-service education

This is the type of education given to a person before he join in teaching profession. It considered as an induction and beginning process.

Pre service education

In service training provide teachers with opportunity to learn specific skills ,techniques ,and new instructional approaches that they can use in their own teaching .it would also help to update the subject competence.

In service training

Provide opportunity for updating the knowledge of development in science and technology.

Help to acquire improved understanding of pedagogical techniques.

Give teachers an exposure to new teaching techniques and to share experience with other teachers.

Gives an opportunity to practice new teaching techniques and development in educational technology.

Needs for in-service training

o summer institute for science teachers:

unitary institute

Sequential institute

Special institute

Project technology institute

Types of in-service teaching training program

oSeminar: seminar is collective thinking on various

problem s of education by expert and educationalist and teachers is called educational seminar.

it provide friendly and informal atmosphere to discuss and exchange views.

oWorkshop: The approach in a workshop is more practical

than that of seminar because in a work shop all the participant work actively and make significant contribution.

oRefresher course it is conducted to enable the teacher to keep

pace with the latest development in their subject as well as in theory and practice of education.

oDebate A debate is a type of discussion in which

a topic is taken and the group member are divided into small groups. One group speaking in favors of the topic and other group against the same.

RIE: Regional Institute of EducationSIE : State Institute of Education Institution of Science EducationUGC :University Grant CommissionNCERT : National Council of Educational

Research and Training.

Various agencies for in service education for teachers