National Professional Standards for Teachers: Developing Teachers’ Professionalism at public Secondary Schools of District Kech Turbat, Balochistan

Abstract

The present study was to investigate the Role of National Professional Standards for teachers: Developing teachers’ professionalism at secondary level. Population of the study was consisted of all secondary school teachers of District Kech. Convenient sampling technique was used to collect data from 100 males and 100 female secondary school teachers of Turbat District. Instrument was developed by the researcher on five dimensions of NPST (subject matter and knowledge, knowledge of ethical values/Islamic and social skill, instructional planning and strategies and assessment). The study was delimited to these five standards only because of time constraints. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were applied to analyze the data. It is concluded that male and female secondary school teachers perceived that National Professional Standards has a significance role to develop professionalism among secondary school teachers. It is further revealed that secondary school teachers have differences of opinions about NPST regarding their age, however, no differences of opinions about NPST in terms of their discipline was found. It is recommended to implement NPSTs for all teachers at secondary level in district kech Turbat, Balochistan.

Keywords: NPST, Professionalism, Secondary Level,