TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD); WHAT ROLE AND WHO BENEFITS? REFLECTIONS ON TEACHER

DEVELOPMENT IN UGANDA

Alice Wabule Uganda Martyrs University

Email wabulealice@yahoo.com

Tel: +256 772 420 535

UKFIET 15th- 17th September 2015

PROBLEM

ASSUMPTION!

CPD PROGRAMMES

1. Government programmes

2. NGOs and local voluntary capacity building initiatives

3. External CPD programmes offered at Universities and NTCs

However? o Low interest for government programmes that do not lead to

certificationo External CPD programmes that are largely embraced by the teachers,

yet, are more career oriented than for skills developmento Teachers are driven with the urge to acquire academic

degrees to: -gain social status;

-enhance opportunities for better economic benefits;

-spring board to leave the teaching profession

ARE CPD PROGRAMMES RESPONDING TO THE SKILLS NEEDS OF TEACHERS?

1.Motivation

My purpose was to leave grade three… to make my life better also by an increment in salary …at least to be promoted for head

teacher ship… but somebody said, after 45 years, you are not supposed to become a

head teacher, and that became a frustration

CTD (1)

2. Disconnect with the actual needs of teachers

And the things they teach us, you wonder how they are going to help us in our primary school teaching. They teach Math concepts which cannot be applied anywhere in primary school (George)

By the way at one time, me I felt like not going back (upgrade) because people who were having degrees would not really show that they are having a degree. But I realized, yes, they have a degree, I don’t have. So I am learning from them to go for further studies not because of what they do but because of the competition…(Willard)

 

HOW CAN CPD PROGRAMMES BE DESIGNED TO MEET THE LOCAL NEEDS OF TEACHERS WITHIN THEIR OWN CONTEXT?

Experience with a new kind of CPDIt is school based, responds to the local needs and involves active participation of teachers and learners. It aims at: Creating conversational space through collaborative

engagement as a tool for empowerment; Enhancing Peer Learning and Counseling;

Strengthening feedback between teachers and

learners.

This has to a certain degree enhanced:

Collaborative learning and reflexivity;

Promoted openness;

Established feedback loops;

Ownership of the innovation.

Thus teachers got space to express themselves

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