Models and Best Practices in Teacher Professional Development

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Excerpted from the infoDev publication, Using Technology to Train Teachers: Appropriate Uses of ICT for Teacher Professional Development in Developing Countries.

Guiding questions

• What are the needs of teachers in our country, and how will teacher professional development (TPD) address these needs?
• Which of the three models of TPD are most appropriate to the needs of our teachers?
• Which models are currently being used in our schools?
• How can ICTs improve and extend current or projected TPD efforts?

Contents

• Understanding Professional Development
• Professional Development vs. Training
• Making TPD Effective
• Building Teachers’ Computers Skills
• Successful Approaches to Computers in TPD
• What is Technology Integration?
• Learner-centered TPD
• Professional Development Models
• The Cascade Model
• Strengthening the Cascade Approach in Tajikistan
• Addressing Women in TPD
• Site-based TPD
• Self-directed TPD
• Web Resources

Please also see the related Implementation Brief.