 In module 80, we will discuss professional organizations for teachers. In this module, we will discuss what are different professional organizations, just as an example, not naming the list which are available in Pakistan and worldwide, etc. Here, we will discuss just the conceptual point of view. And what are the benefit of those organizations? We will discuss here with the intentions that how these professional organizations are providing benefit to the teachers or the individuals. Professional organizations throughout the world, national, regional, local or internationally, they are providing opportunities for the growth and development of the teachers in a different way. The professional organizations are arranging conferences and seminars for the teachers, conferences and seminars for primary school teachers, elementary school teachers, secondary school teachers, college teachers, university teachers, researchers, etc. And the professional organizations are offering long list of the online learning resources, distance education resources. And regularly, they are publishing newsletters, magazines, research journals, etc. With the industry updates means they are institutional updates. And comprehensive, very comprehensive websites are available which are providing ample to the level of the satisfaction to the teacher, the information and the knowledge and the practices for the professional development. There are different professional organizations here, they are just given examples. For example, there are organizations on supervision and the curriculum development, educational management, educational leadership, teacher training, science education, special education, etc. There are national, international and regional associations of the teachers. They work, they conduct researches, they provide platform for the collaboration, for discussions, for the deliberations. And middle level education here means for the different levels of education. Primary level has different associations, secondary level has different associations, university level has different associations. In terms of the field, in terms of the level of the education, there are different organizations. And for example, there are the national association for the gifted children, for the special children, etc. And there are different benefits. If you are associated as a teacher with any associations, you will know what are your rights and what are your duties, what are your liabilities, what are your legal defenses in that profession. Here this aspect is more important than more significant in advanced countries, because the legal aspects and the liability insurances are very important for any legal or any professional practices. And the other one is the career development by scholarship and the grant to the teacher. The teachers need to get scholarship, need to get grants. These different associations, professional associations provide the platforms to share those opportunities. And they also they provide the learning innovative and the problem solving teaching techniques that what are the new approaches to solve the research, to solve the teaching problems and the learning problems to the teachers, to those teachers who become the member. For those professional associations, one has to become formally the member, to fill in the form, Most of the professional associations ask for the fees and it varies from the level of the organization, level of the associations and that once you are registered, either they give you a volunteer or free of registration fees or they get the registration fees to become the member, they start sending you the emails and the letters and the newsletters and the research journals and invite you to the conference and the discussions and the deliberations. We can say that the time and space and these are not the hindrances for upbringing of any individuals. So the different education and these are the two important factors are the indicators, time and space that have the impact on the professional development or the improvement or the development or any phenomenal change or any aspect of the life. So the professional associations help in improving and facilitating and improving the practice etc.