TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: IT'S NOT AN EVENT, IT'S A PROCESS

The quality of education in any nation is intricately linked to the quality of the teachers it produces as the teacher mediated between educational content and the learner in a conducive context. If there is no quality education, brought about by quality of its education. It is important to note, however, that the quality of teachers produced is related to the quality of those admitted into teacher education programme. Teacher education is a program related with teacher proficiency and competence that would make them competent enough to face new challenge in the education. Now a days the field of Education is not only limited with book but has broadened in various new horizon. Development and changes in education have affected teacher education necessitating reviews and reform. It demand understanding with investigative mind, assimilating the required transformation, accommodating and responding to the universal need. We also need to train teacher with new perspective as the outer world in the classroom and school are opening to the world. The pre-service and in-service teacher education programme have shown paradigm shift with its emphasis on globalisation and individualisation. This main purpose of this paper is to find the need of Professional Development of Teachers.