Professional Development of Teachers: A Rating Scale on Self- assessment of Teacher Educators for Professional Development

Abstract

Improving teacher quality is at the heart of our national effort to achieve excellence in the classroom. This comes at a time when the very structure of education is going through a profound change and recognition of wide differences when teacher education institutions will help teachers understand the strengths and weaknesses of their education in planning for their professional future. The author has thus prepared a rating scale on self-assessment of teacher educators on professional development. The components selected are enhancing teacher effectiveness, transference of knowledge through innovative models and trends, prediction of teacher morale, professional ethics, technology as a back-up force in professional development, and teaching styles. The tool has been validated by experts, and a pilot study has been made to find out the reliability of the tool. The reliability is 0.78 and the test is highly reliable. The paper is concluded with educational implications related to enhancing quality in professional development of teacher educators.