- Continuous professional development (CPD) is defined as a planned, continuous process for teachers to develop personally and professionally through improving their knowledge, skills, and teaching practices. - The main purposes of CPD are to improve student learning and achievement, help teachers learn new techniques and from each other's experiences, and encourage self-reflection to enhance teaching practices. - CPD is important for teachers' confidence, motivation, career development, and students' learning outcomes. Effective CPD models are personalized, relevant, sustained over time, supported, and collaborative in nature.

1. Development (CPD)
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD
5/13/2018
CPD
of
Teachers
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by
Ijaz Ahmad

2. Plan of Talk
 Defining CPD
 Purpose of CPD
 Importance of CPD
 Models of CPD
 CPD models in Pakistan
 Conclusion
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3. CPD
 CPD is a planned, continuous and lifelong process
 Where by teachers try to develop their personal and professional
qualities, and improve their knowledge, skills and practice
(Padwad, Amol, Dixit, Krishna, 2011)
 CPD encompasses all behaviors which are intended to effect
change in the classroom (Day, 1999)
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4. Purpose of CPD
 Improve students learning/achievements
 Teachers become aware of the new development and
techniques of teaching
 Learn from other teachers experiences
 Critically reflect on their teaching practice and take
corrective measures
 Based on feedback provided by head teacher through
classroom observation , improve their teaching practice
in order to improve students performance
 Design and implement different strategies/activities to
address students issues
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5. Importance of CPD
 The education professional
 Enhance your confidence and motivation
 contribute to your career development as you become more effective in your workplace
 allow you to consolidate and demonstrate your professionalism, both to yourself and others
 The Learner
 The quality of teaching is recognized as one of the most important factors in determining learner
outcomes. In other words, a good teacher will achieve better results from their learners than a poor
one and vice versa
 Your workplace
 If access to effective CPD encourages you to be more confident, motivated and inspired, giving you
the reward of greater professional satisfaction
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6. Models of CPD
 Lieberman (1996) classified CPD
into three types
1. Direct teaching (such as courses,
workshops)
2. learning in school (such as peer
coaching, critical friendships,
mentoring, action research) and
3. out of school learning (visits to other
schools, school-university
partnerships and so on)
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• Training
• Award-bearing
• Deficit
• Cascade
• Standards-based
Coaching/Mentoring
• Community of
practice
• Action research
• Transformative
Kennedy (2005) identify nine models of CPD

7. Features of Effective CPD
The most effective CPD is that which is
 Personalized
 Relevant
 Sustained
 Supported
 Collaborative
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CPD
in
Pakistan

9. CPD Model Development Process
 NEP and NPST provide base for CPD Model
 Continuous Professional Development of Teachers and other Teaching Personnel
 In-service teacher education shall be developed upon and related to the pre-service teacher education
 All teachers will have opportunities for professional development in a three-year cyclic manner
 In-service training will focus more on capacity building of teachers in identified deficiency areas,
educational leadership and other areas of education for sustainable development etc.
 Continuous Professional Development of Teacher Educators
 Continuous professional development academy/center for Teacher Educators will be set-up in each
province to help them acquire up-to-date knowledge and adopt innovative teaching-learning strategies in
their classrooms
 The CPD courses shall be part of the performance appraisal of teacher educators and linked to their
progression in the profession (NEP, 2017; p. 67)
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10. Cont.
Standard-9:Continuous professional development and code of conduct
“Teachers participate as active, responsible member of the professional
community, engage in reflective practice, pursuing the opportunity to
grow professionally and establish collegial relationship to enhance teaching
and learning process”
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11. Cont.
 Focus of CPD Model
 All primary and elementary
school teachers will attend
the professional
development activities on
every PD day (last working
day of each month)
 The focus of the material
will be on Pedagogical
Content Knowledge (PCK)
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Management of CPD
• At provincial level, PITE will take lead in
managing all the CPD activities in the
field
• At cluster level these activities will be
managed by the Cluster Hub
School/Campus School within a cluster
• At school level school Head will carry out
observation of each teacher twice a week

12. CPD Model in Pakistan
 The CPD will be delivered through blended mode:
 Face-to-face interaction of trainers (who are referred as Guide Teachers/Subject
Coordinators/facilitator in the framework) with teachers in workshop setting;
 for all teachers within the school and/or at cluster level on regular basis for a short duration (two-hours
to one day), and
 for low performing teachers within District for one week to four-weeks during vacations
 On the job support through mentoring visits of schools by the trainers/ASDEO/ observaio by
Headmaster
 Online support for teacher and trainers through a dynamic web-portal to be administered by a
dedicated team of professionals based at PITE
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Stages of development

14. Flow of the CPD Activities under the
Model
CPD
Professional
Development
Day (PDD)
Classroom
Observation
(CRO)
Self Reflective
Dairy (SRD)
Quarterly
Monitoring
Meeting(QMM)
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PD Day
1
Result
of
assessment
through
compendium
PD Day2
Academic
calendar
Result
of
assessment
through
compendium
Classroom
observation
feedback Self directed
dairy
Topic for
the
current
month
Topic for
the current
month
Interconnection of CPD activities

16. Conclusion
 Different model were in practice through reginal and international
organization but the new model of CPD now replace all other CPD models
and the impetus to restructure CPD in the provinces has now gained
momentum. There are many advantages of the proposed model including
collaborative working to improve teacher quality and student learning,
reduction in the number of monitors and officers visiting schools, and a
substantial increase in teacher training time. But one great limitation is that
the resources persons are not fully equipped with proper training. Further
more it is a continuing process and help the teachers to reflect on their
practices regularly.
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17. References
Aslam, A. (2017). Reforming Teacher Professional Development in Punjab: Will it work? Institute of Development and Economic
Alternatives (IDEAS).
British Council . (2015). Teaching for Success: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework for teachers. Retrieved from
www.teachingenglish.org.uk
Caena, F. (2011). Education and Training 2020 Thematic Working Group ‘Professional Development of Teachers’: Literature review
Quality in Teachers’ continuing professional development. European Commission Directorate-General for Education and
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(2015). CPD How to access it and why it’s essential. Association of Teachers and Lecturers. Retrieved from www.atl.org.uk/abouttime.
Kennedy, A. (2005). Models of contuining professional development a framewor. Journal of In-service Education, 31(2), 235-250.
Rose, J., & Reynold, D. (2018). Teachers’ Continuing Professional Development: A New Approach. Retrieved from
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Thank you
&
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Ijaz Ahmad
PhD student
International Islamic university Islamabad