Identifying the Teachers Professional Challenges about utilizing Technology, Conferences, Seminars and Workshops at Secondary Level

Abstract

The research aims were to find the individual professional needs, to determine the teachers’ professional role, to identify the teachers’ professional challenges, to analyze the teachers’ involvement in job at secondary level and to design professional development framework for secondary school teachers. This study is survey and descriptive in nature, in which both the quantitative and qualitative methods were used. The explanatory sequential technique was used and the population comprised; head teachers, secondary school teachers, and students of secondary classes from Tehsil Rahim Yar Khan. The sample size comprised 48 secondary school head teachers ,144 secondary school teachers, and 426 students of secondary classes with the same ratio of gender and locality. The questionnaires were used as data collection tool. The researchers personally visited the schools and collected the data from the respondents. The study recommends that professional trainings for secondary school teachers must be organized for tackling content knowledge challenges, managerial challenges of secondary school teachers.