Prosthetist/orthotist educational experience & professional development in Pakistan

Prosthetist/orthotist Educational Experience & Professional

Purpose: To explore areas in which the education at the Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic & Orthotic Science (PIPOS) could be improved or supplemented to facilitate clinical practice of graduates. To describe educational opportunities PIPOS graduates have had since their graduation and explore their further educational needs. Method: 15 graduates from PIPOS participated in semi-structured interv...

Customizing Educational Technology Professional Development

professional development can be designed in many different ways. ETPD varies by general purposes and goals, specific learning objectives, curriculum content, student grade levels for which the strategies and tools presented are appropriate, professional development models used, how it is matched to participating teachers’ characteristics, and the ways in which it is evaluated. Providers can ens...

Enhancing educational effectiveness through teachers’ professional development

generalisable knowledge Situation-specific knowledge

Proposals for a scheme for continuing professional development in Pakistan.

Teachers, Educational Change and Professional Development: Some Thoughts from a South African Experience

In the past decade, widespread educational changes were proposed for education at all levels of the system in South Africa. Educational reform has therefore become an inescapable part of the reality of teachers’ work. Initial implementation of the new curriculum for schools, guiding reform after the shift to democracy in 1994, was not easy for teachers and this was later revised and streamlined...