EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF INNOVATIVE APPROACHES ON TEACHER DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

The aim of current study was to examine the impact of innovative approaches on teacher development in Pakistan. Teacher education needs to improve according to international level so, that it can meet the demand of society. Therefore, formal methods of teaching need to be replaced with modern and innovative methods.  A lot of educational researchers put emphasis over to enhance the teacher’s continuous professional development which enable him to discharge their professional duties (keeping in view objectives of concern subject, psychology/future need of students and using available teaching learning facilities in the classroom). A relationship has been reported between teacher development and their training by using innovative teaching methods and not using innovative teaching methods. The variation in result reported by researches regarding use of innovative approaches in teacher education reflects that the demographic variables might have influential effect on innovative approaches on teacher education. .A questionnaire was developed for teacher on five points’ likert scale and reliability of questionnaire was 0.88.The total population of Quid-E Azam Academy for educational development of Punjab consisted of 86 teachers. A questionnaire sent to them and among them 71 participants returned the questionnaire. The findings of this study indicates that there was no significant difference between locality (urban and rural) and teachers academic qualification regarding use of innovative approaches i.e. , Micro teaching, CAI, Multimedia and  training aids at Quaid--Azam Academy for Educational Development.

Keywords: Impact, Modern/ Innovative methods, teacher’s development, Demographic variables, Reliability, Micro teaching, Computer assisted instruction and Multimedia