Continuing Professional Development of English Language Teachers

Overview

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of India''s continuing professional development (CPD) landscape. It examines the issues surrounding the professional development of English language teachers in India at the tertiary level from multiple perspectives.

Models of Learning

Further, it evaluates various models of continuing professional learning (CPL) and emphasizes the transformative model as a solution to the social, administrative, or other impediments teachers encounter in their lives.

Practical Examples

Importantly, it presents examples, solving academic and non-academic problems in formal and informal, and face-face and technology-mediated forms of teaching and learning by teachers of English in different contexts.

Literature and Approaches

It discusses the latest developments in the literature related to the transformative and reflective approach to classroom problems faced by teachers on the ground such as classroom environment, students'' socio-economic background, teachers education, and teacher assessment.

Significance of CPD

Also, it positions continuing professional development (CPD) as having transformative power in teaching English in India and how it can improve students'' learning opportunities.

Target Audience

The book is relevant to English language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers in India and across the globe to address significant issues in the field: how to handle every classroom situation and how to train oneself as a teacher as well as a teacher educator.