Professional development programs and professional organizations allow professionals to build skills in their field or new fields. Some examples of professional organizations for teachers include the National Science Teacher Association, the Association for the Education of Teachers in Science, and the American Association of Physics Teachers. Seminars bring small groups together regularly to participate in discussions about a particular subject. In-service training provides teachers opportunities to learn new skills and instructional approaches to use in their own teaching and update their subject knowledge. Workshops are more practical than seminars as participants actively work and contribute.

1. Submitted by
SUMAYYA .K
Physical science
Roll no:38

2.  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..

3.  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.

4.  NSTA :National science Teacher Association
 AETS :Association for the Education of Teachers in
science
 AAPT: American Association of Physics teacher
 AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
 NAS: National Academy of Science

5.  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.

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programs, multimedia (audio, images and video),
documents or electronic books.

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9.  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…..

10.  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.

11.  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.

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

13.  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.

14.  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.

15. o summer institute for science teachers:
 unitary institute
 Sequential institute
 Special institute
 Project technology institute

16. 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.

17. o Workshop:
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.
o Refresher 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.

18. o Debate
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.

19.  RIE: Regional Institute of Education
 SIE : State Institute of Education
 Institution of Science Education
 UGC :University Grant Commission
 NCERT : National Council of Educational Research
and Training.