Course Contents

Core Reading: Designing Professional Development for Better Pedagogy: A Higher Education Experience in Pakistan Authors: Imran Anjum Chaudary and Shahida Imran Publisher: Createspace, Amazon Recommended Reading: Day, C. & Sachs, J. (2004). International Handbook on the Continuing Professional Development. Berkshire: Open University Press. Guskey, T. R. (2000). Evaluating Professional Development. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press. Chaudary, I. A. & Imran, S. (2012). Designing Professional Development for Better Pedagogy: a higher education in Pakistan. Charleston, SC: CreateSpace.

Course Synopsis

professional development practices. The course further focuses on exploring the scholarly literature on teacher professional development, teacher knowledge in practice, on practice and for practice. After covering an exhaustive literature the course will focus on the conduct of context-based research, and development of English/ESP courses, in particular. Aims and Objectives The course aims to: 1. Develop learners’ conceptual and practical understanding of the field which encompasses new trends and underpinnings of continuous professional development 2. New trends and paradigm shift from staff development to Continuous Professional Development 3. Familiarize learners with the models and types of Continuous Professional Development 4. Evaluate English Language/Teacher training programmes 5. Develop professional development course by following theoretical stages (needs analysis, goals, aims, objectives, implementation and appraisal)

Course Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the learners will be able to understand that: 1. How is Continuous Professional development different from Professional Development? 2. Understand new trends of CPD and paradigm shift from staff development to Continuous Professional Development 3. Types and Models of Continuous Professional Development 4. Evaluation of Teacher training programmes and its parameters 5. Developing professional development model/course for English/ ESL teachers 6. Steps to develop a program; needs analysis, goals, aims, objectives, execution and appraisal