National Education Policy 2020 and Continuous Professional Development of Teachers

Abstract

Continuous Professional Development is an important prerequisite to equip the teachers with all the skills needed in the field of education. Technology has been playing important role in every walk of life and society is also changing accordingly. Education system, students, parents have also changed with the changing times. Therefore, teachers need to change in this scenario.They must become professionally efficient to meet the challenges of presentcircumstances. Teachers are supposed to perform various duties starting as a guide, counsellor, administrator, academician, leader etc. To discharge all these duties a teacher must be well versed in the fields listed in this article and Continuous Professional Development programmes can lead the teachers towards an efficient discharge of their duties and help them to become a confident individual. An efficient teacher and empowered students will lead society to ‘Shreshth Bharat’.