In Service Teacher Training in ELT
...ir work depends upon their working conditions, their personal goals and attitudes and career prospects available to language teachers in their community. If teaching is considered as a profession, that is as having unique characteristics, as requiring specialized skills and training, as being lifelong and valued career choice, and as offering a high level job satisfaction (Richards, 1994:40), then policy makers should create these opportunities by designing a structure which provides mentoring and counselling for teachers, well–planned courses aiming to meet the needs and expectations, establishing an appraisal system and activating the inspection system to work more effectively in providing support during the implementation period. The results of this study suggest that the INSET courses are far from satisfying the needs of the teachers in the form they were designed in the past, as they were addressing to more common needs rather than focusing on the specific needs of different types...