In-service Teacher Education In-service Teacher Education refers to all programs and schemes through which teachers who are already employed avail teacher education and training for upgrading their knowledge and skills.

Distance Education program  The Distance Education program for in-service teacher is a Bachelor of Education degree in pry education.  The course is based on internal B.ed (pry) program. It is a five year program.  It was started in December 1995 and the first batch of candidate passed out in 2003.

Goals and objectives  To provide opportunities to express, reflect and share their experiences as classroom practitioners.  To develop a liking and commitment to learner centered teaching rather than syllabus teaching  To create an awareness that changes in teacher attitude and teacher readiness precede changes in education.  To provide work and context relevant teacher education by relating theory and practice.

Master of Education  It is a part time Education for Heads of the schools  Paro college of Education in collaboration with St. Francis Xavier ( St.fx) university in Canada provides this course  It aims at enhancing the leadership capacity of the existing secondary school heads  The purpose of the program is to equip heads of schools with effective administration and management skills.

Nature of the course The Ten years course to be offered in this program are adapted from those currently offered at St. Francis Xavier. The content is mainly on leadership and management, which are very demanding academically. The need for long term institution based training for Heads of school was discussed and endorsed as a necessity at both the Annual Education Conference and at the Teacher Education Board

Aims of the program To provide the heads of the schools with an appropriate course to help them fulfill their roles effectively Help improve the management of schools Enable the heads of the schools to provide leadership to both teachers and students in their respective schools.

Objectives of the program  Provide a diploma level course to those heads of community and pry schools which had not availed higher level courses.  Organized the course once a year during the winter vacation of three consecutive years..  Enable the heads of schools to manage changing trends in education system.

Other in-service programs 1, PGCITS. post graduates certificate in Teaching Information science, held in Sherubtse college  PGDE post graduates diploma in English started in 2004 in sherubtse college.  Lead teacher program It focuses on specializing pry teachers in teaching PC math's and English, started in 2006 at SCE

NBIPs National based in-service program are held for various purposes The first ever workshop for 150 teachers in the so called Environmental Studies was jointly run by SCE and PCE in 1985

SBIPs School based in- service programs are also held after following the NBIP DBIP and CBIP are also conducted in some parts of the country