LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 9 September 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Continuous Professional Development -
An Issue in Tertiary Education in Bangladesh

Syeda Farzana Sultana, M.A., Md. Samyul Haque, M.A., and
Ahmed Wasimul Bari, Ph.D. Candidate

Abstract

Development of any kind is the process of becoming the best. Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is rather a requirement for all the employees of an organization. It aims at bringing benefit to the individual as well as to the organization, and to the profession as a whole.

The two parties involved in CPD are the individual and the organization. The former makes a commitment to develop herself and the latter actively supports it. This support from the organization is a must in CPD.

Bangladesh is in its infancy as far as awareness of CPD is concerned. In the education sector, the country is yet to be adequately aware of, initiate and grow up with CPD. The private universities in Bangladesh seem to have started addressing the idea of CPD seriously in the recent days. This paper aims at finding out the CPD scenario in private universities in Bangladesh both at the individual level and at the organizational level, through a questionnaire that was sent to teachers of different private universities. Finally, recommendations are made on what should and can be done by the faculty members as well as by the organizations, to ensure and boost up CPD process.

1. Introduction

Professional development means deepening insight into (one's own) professional practice and seeking further to understand that practice. Teaching involves complex professional expertise which itself needs to be better understood and more clearly presented to the public. A successful Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme would yield a more motivated and enthusiastic teaching force. Undergoing CDP programmes means that the individual is responsible for her life-long career development under the umbrella of the institution. All kinds of CPD programmes are meant to support and develop the skills of teachers. CPD plays a vital role to stimulate the intellectual interest of a highly motivated teacher.

This paper tries to define what continuous professional development is. It views the individual and the institution as the two parties involved in CPD. Then it reviews the literature of CPD to give an elaborate idea about CPD. It looks around the private universities to find out what is going on there regarding CPD empirically through a questionnaire. Next it discusses the findings on the basis of the theoretical knowledge of CPD. This paper finally makes a few recommendations regarding what should be done to ensure CPD in the private universities in Bangladesh.

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Right to Education and Languages in India - Part I | An Application of Skills Integration in Language Teaching | Official Ways to Subjugate Languages - School Setting as a Cause of Pahari Dhundi-Kairali Decline | Speech Identification Scores in Children With Bimodal Hearing | Continuous Professional Development - An Issue in Tertiary Education in Bangladesh | Teaching the Extra - Essentiality of Bringing Eclecticism into Classroom | Effective Teaching of English: A CLT Perspective for Haryana | ELT in Libyan Universities - A Pragmatic Approach | Behavioural Problems of Secondary School Students - A Pakistani Scene | Selection Procedure for English Language Teachers' Professional Development Courses of HEC Pakistan - A Case Study | Cohesion and Coherence in the novel The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | A Review of A. R. Kidwai 2009: Literary Orientalism: a companion | Dravidian Ideologue Kanimozhi and Her Language | Extensive Reading and Reading Strategies: A Try-Out | Trends in Language Shift and Maintenance in the Eranad Dialect of Malayalam | Interdependence of Law and Literature in Shakespeare's and Charles Dickens's Writings - A Reflection | The Interaction between Bilingualism, Educational and Social Factors and Foreign Language Leaning in Iran | Code Switching in Kailasam's Play - Poli Kitty | Morph-Synthesizer for Oriya Language Computational Approach | Question Formation in Pahari | Language in Politics of Recognition: A Case of the Nepali Language in the Creation of Political Identity of the Nepalis in Darjeeling | Technology Note - Creating Parallel Test Items with Microsoft Excel | Politeness Strategies Across Cultures | Bridge between East and West - Iqbal and Goethe | Syntactic Errors Made by Science Students at the Graduate Level in Pakistan - Causes and Remedies | Prospective Teachers of English in India: A Perspective | Reported Perceptions and Practices of English Language Teachers at Secondary Level in Pakistan | A PRINT VERSION OF ALL THE PAPERS OF SEPTEMBER, 2010 ISSUE IN BOOK FORMAT. | HOME PAGE of September 2010 Issue | HOME PAGE | CONTACT EDITOR languageinindiaUSA@gmail.com

Syeda Farzana Sultana, M.A.
Department of English
American International University
Bangladesh
farzana_hafsa@yahoo.com

Md.Samyul Haque, M.A. Corresponding Author
English Discipline
Khulna University-9208
Bangladesh
samyul007@yahoo.com

Ahmed Wasimul Bari, Ph.D. Candidate
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