How Did These Teachers Develop Professionally After Joining the Profession of Teaching?

Abstract

As evident in the previous chapter, most of the teachers started developing themselves professionally after joining the teaching profession. This chapter details how the teachers developed professionally. Some of them started looking for formal teacher education, such as short courses, workshops and other sources of improving their knowledge and skills as teachers because “education courses are the most formal and systemic part of learning to teach” (Feiman-Nemser, 1983, p. 154). Within formal teacher education many of them did their B.Ed. and M.Ed. as part of their professional development. Some also had opportunities for in-house teacher education within their respective schools. All these formal opportunities of teacher education helped them in their professional growth as teachers, which impacted their teaching and student learning.