Due to the wide spread of COVID-19, the educational institutes were closed on 20th March, 2020 and the individuals were advised to isolate themselves at home. This lockdown not only adversely affected the economy but all the educational activities were shut down which created a huge gap in students’ learning and knowledge all over the globe. This quantitative study was designed to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the education of higher level students in the context of Pakistan. The five point Likert Scale questionnaire was provided to the learners enrolled in intermediate, undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level. 74 respondents respond to the questionnaire. The data were analyzed through SPSS 23. The results of the findings revealed that students have been facing a lot of difficulty to grasp certain concepts during e-classes. The students lacked internet access along with not been given any prior guidance related to the usage of online platform. The challenges regarding online classes at the same time are being faced by the teachers as well along with the students. It was also analyzed that although teachers are providing all the necessary resources and feedback to the students but still students have been going through difficulties in grasping the concept, gaining knowledge and communicating with their teachers online. Due to immense number of online classes teachers have a huge workload on their part.

This study is aimed at examining the use of teacher reflective practices in future professional development. The research was conducted to assess the effectiveness of educators' reflective behaviors on prospective teachers. After completing their under-graduation/ graduation degree from the distance teacher education programs, how much they will be professionally developed to use reflective practices effectively. Here, particularly the effectiveness of reflective practices of teacher educators for the professional development of future teachers has been investigated. For this survey, the researcher has used a five-point Likert scale, interview, classroom observation, and one-way Chi-square test. The study concludes with recommendations and implications based on the findings.  For this investigation, the population is all the distance teacher educators’ program from all the public universities in Sindh. The researcher selected 595 prospective teachers as a sample purposefully and 32 teacher educators for classroom observation.