Teacher Professional Development (TPD)

CLIx aims to develop a framework for continuing professional development using contemporary technology to support teachers in their teaching and classroom practices in English, Mathematics and Science. As one of the strategies at TPD, teachers will be offered certificate courses from TISS using a blended learning approach.

Vision

To support teachers’ learning by nurturing local communities of practice and larger networks. To create an ecosystem that provides continuous support and opportunities for professional development, where teachers share and reflect on experiences, ideas and theories.

Objectives

We imagine an environment that fosters teacher agency, thereby enabling pedagogical transformation and innovation.

1. Engage teachers in reflective practice and enable them to articulate their beliefs about learning.

2. Provide avenues to make teachers’ situated knowledge of teaching explicit.

3. Develop a professional learning community.

4. Facilitate teachers’ understanding of their role and their students’ role as digital citizens.

5. Develop teachers’ capacity for investigation, implementation, evaluation and adaptation of technological resources to support the teaching-learning process.

6. Enable teachers to effectively use CLIx modules with students and through this use, deepen their own understanding of content and pedagogy.