Continuing Professional Development of English Language Teachers: Perspectives and Practices from India

ISBN-13: 9789811950681 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 293 str.

S. P. Dhanavel

Opis

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

Spis treści

Introduction and Overview

S P Dhanavel

Continuing Professional Development in Education

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

Continuing Professional Development: Theory and Practice

S. Kumaran

Teacher Research for Continuing Professional Development: 3R Approach

Lakshmana Rao Pinninti

Perceptions and Initiatives of Teachers towards Continuing Professional Development

K. Padmini Shankar

Training Trainers to be Reflective Practitioners: Issues and Challenges

Ravinarayan Chakrakodi

Teacher Self-Assessment as a Key to Teacher Empowerment

P. Hari Padma Rani

Reflective Teaching, Teacher Education, and Professional Development

M Raja Vishwanathan

Developing Expertise through Reflective Practice

P Ramanujam

The Evolution of an English Teacher

D. S. Kesava Rao

Teacher Motivation, Professional Development, and English Language Education

Krishna K Dixit

Continuing Professional Development and Culture: Developing as an English Teacher in India

Amol Padwad

Mentoring in Continuing Professional Development

Deepti Gupta

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Teacher Development

V. David Jeyabalan, P. Caroline Cynthia

E-Resources for Professional Development of English Teachers

J. Savithri

Open Educational Resources (OERs) for Professional Development

Kshema Jose

O autorze

Senkamalam Periyasamy Dhanavel is a Senior Professor of English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai. He has published over 80 papers in national and international journals of repute and in some edited volumes. He has brought out three volumes of poetry: Poetry of Life (1997), Muse Time (1998), and Purpose of Life (1998), a critical study The Indian Imagination of Girish Karnad (2000), a booklet Writing for Mass Media (2005), and an edited volume Critical Perspectives on American Literature (2008). He has also published innovative textbooks for college students: English and Communications Skills (2009), English and Soft Skills Vol. 1 (2010), Communication and Soft Skills (2015), Positive Traits for College Students (2015), Personality Development (2018), and English and Soft Skills Vol. 2 (2019). Further, he has authored English Language Teaching in India: The Shifting Paradigms (2012) as a resource book for English teachers in India. Besides his regular teaching and research at IIT Madras, he has also been teaching two online courses, one on “Poetry” and another on “Literature and Life” through the NPTEL/SWAYAM portal.