Gyen Kalsang Wangdu lak from Head Office
has come to our school to give talk on teacher’s professional development. This
program was sponsored by Tibet Fund in collaboration with Department of
Education (DoE) to bring about changes and development in the field of academic
education. Based on last year’s PGP and TPD, Mr. Wangdu made some
recommendations such as ‘Rethinking approaches to TPD in the following
indicators; teacher as the pivot of the education system, paradigm shift –
locating agencies and resources within the teaching community, and learning
based on constructivism, contextualization, self directed, experiential and
hands-on. Regarding Lesson Study he said that at least 5 hrs should be spent on
planning to achieve higher goals – HOTS, asked the teachers to have
documentation of soft copies of initial discussion, Lesson Plan, Observation
notes, Feedback summary, Revised LP and Teaching aids used, etc. Genlak, told
teachers doing Lesson Study to have complete one lesson study cycle well (Plan,
Enact, Reflect and Redesign, Reenact, Summarize).
Gen. Kalsang Wangdu urged the school
administrators to follow the time table that he made for 2015 Teachers’
Professional Development (TPD).
