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International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation

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Educators’ perceptions on the relevancy of continuing professional development

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Abstract

The study explored the perceptions of educators (Primary & secondary school teachers) on the relevancy of Continuing Professional Development. A descriptive qualitative case study was carried out with fourteen purposively selected educators who had recently attended a continuing Professional Development Conference. Ethical protocols were followed before collecting the data through online in-depth interviews. Data collected was thematically analyzed searching for similar concepts and grouping them into clusters. Findings indicate that Continuing Professional development is still very relevant to 21st Century educators. However, very few educators consistently engage in CPD for various reasons. Some of the commonly cited reasons for non-engagement are lack of support from educational administrators, financial constraints, Time constraints and low motivation among most teachers. The encouraging thing is that most of the participants indicated that all these challenges that militate against the effective implementation of CPD may be circumvented. Some of the mitigatory strategies are commitment to putting extra time and money to enroll for further studies, attending CPD programs, organizing inter-school collaborative CPD programs and a deliberate move to shift from a negative attitude to a positive attitude. Unfortunately, some of the educational administrators are reportedly turning CPD into a fault-finding spree or a fundraising venture. The study recommends that educational institutions need to widen their scope of course offerings to include diplomas and short (Certificate) courses that are relevant to the current global world. In addition, there is a need for Educational Administrators to organize Inter-school Collaboration (Bergmark,, 2023) within the District, Organize refresher courses for orientation, and introduce new pedagogic approaches, where they invite subject specialists or experts to lead and coach CPD presentations (Darling-Hammond, et al. 2017), lastly, educational administrators also need to out-source scholarship funding to compliment the teachers’ efforts to attend CPD programs.

 

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Constance Chifamba (2024). Educators’ perceptions on the relevancy of continuing professional development . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE), 5(2), 219-225.

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