A Conceptual Frame about Professional Development of Teachers and Implications for Turkish Education System

Abstract

Teachers fulfil quite important and ethical job in a modern era. Teachers participate professional in development opportunities like other professionals to deliver sufficient, ethical, and high-quality service. Current world produces enormous knowledge that teachers needed participate in professional development activities to be updated. Non-empirical this study included professional development and its importance; features that ensure professional development effective; job-embedded professional development opportunities managed as daily part of job such as mentoring, peer coaching, lesson study and Shanghai research and lesson groups along with conclusions. The authentic contribution of this study was implications about features that champion professional development effective for Turkish educational system along with inferences about creating way of for an effective professional development system that will support teachers and learners.