In-service Teacher Training Processes and Procedures at METU DBE

15th METU International ELT Convention, Ankara, Türkiye, 10 - 11 Mayıs 2024, ss.110-111, (Yayınlanmadı)

The growth of teachers is a continuous process of decision-making in the context

of the workplace, reflecting on those decisions and sharing the experience

with others. Because language teaching is a professional practice, it requires

this continuous process of experimentation and evaluation on the part of the

practitioners so that they can be more effective in their pedagogy as well for

their own professional development. In-service training courses and programs

are the most useful tools for this process because it grows directly out of the

experiences, assumptions and perceived problems of the teachers. As studies also

suggest (Desimone et al., 2002; Kalinowski et al., 2020; Liu & Phelps, 2020),

professional development experiences can have a substantial positive influence

on teachers’ classroom practice and student achievement as well as school quality.

For these reasons, institutions provide teachers with opportunities for professional

development via in-service training practices. METU Department of Basic

English is one of those institutions. There are continuous, structured and formal

in-service training programs for the English language instructors provided by the

Professional Development Unit of the Department. This session is a description

of the in-service training programs and procedures at METU DBE. The needs

analysis, content and material design, delivery practices as well as feedback

and evaluation procedures of the DBE in-service teacher training program are

explained, and some examples of the process are provided.