Aims of in-service programes of teachers

As a professionals teachers seek for avenues for their self development:

•   .      to explore, reflect on and develop one’s own practice skills of teaching.
•  .     to deepen one’s knowledge of, and update oneself about one’s academic discipline or other areas of school curriculum.
•   .      to research and reflect on children and their education.
•          to understand and update oneself on education and social issues.
•       to prepare for other roles professionally linked to education/teaching, such as teacher education, curriculum development or counseling etc.
•      to break out of one’s isolation and share ones experiences and insights with others in the field, both teachers and academics working in the area of one’s discipline, as well as intellectuals in the immediate and wider society.
•    . to enable teachers to work towards prioritized goals in education such as universalisation and inclusion.
•     to influence social attitudes and generate greater commitment to constitutional values and overcoming discrimination in the classroom.
•     to transform existing practices towards more child friendly methods and methods suited to strengthening conceptual learning and understanding rather than rote learning.
•           to enable teachers to implement and achieve specific targeted aspects in the curriculum, such as the  use of a type of technology, or the addition of topics such as AIDS, or adolescent education, etc.
•           to prepare teachers to play enhanced roles in the education system, as resource persons, or head teachers, etc.