Staff Development for National Development

The needs and aspirations of the society in which welive in terms of quality education is changing everynow and then. These changes have placed mountingpressure on those who run our schools especially theteacher, since in recent years the main tool thatthe society uses to assess the performance of theteacher is students’ results from NationalExaminations. It is upon this that, teachers are leftwith no option than to find means of developing andupgrading their knowledge and skills in order to beable to improve on their teaching methods andknowledge to enhance the teaching and learningprocess in our schools. This book is based on acomparative analysis of the attitudes of public andprivate school teachers’ toward staff developmentprograms and also to understand how staff developmentleads to school improvement.