Secondary Level English Language Teachers' Motivation for Professional Development

Abstract

This study is entitled as Secondary Level English Language Teachers' Motivation for Professional Development.It aimed to explore English language teachers' motivation for professional development in the institutional schools and identify the challenges for professional development in the institutional schools. I used qualitative method adopting a narrative inquiry design to carry out the study.The population of the study included all the secondary level English language teachers of the institutional schools of Kathmandu district and four teachers were selected as the sample for the study by using non-random purposive sampling. Required data was elicited conducting an open-ended in-depth interview. The data were analyzed by using thematic approach. From the data analyzed,it was found that some English teachers were motivated for professional development as their institution supports them to be involved in different professional development activities such as teacher training, conference, seminar, workshops, action research, and so on but some of the teachers were not motivated because they were not sent to be involved in professional development activities though they were interested,school does not support them and administration just want them to teach and be regular in the school as well as they pay from their own pocket to be involved in trainings. Different sub-themes were generated to get the results about teacher motivation for professional development such as opportunities to participate in professional development activities,relationship between teacher motivation and teacher professional development,teacher motivation and TPD during Covid-19,teachers' job satisfaction,demotivating factors and also identified the challenges like lack of explicit policy and guidelines for teacher professional development,limited knowledge among teachers,predominance of traditional approach,lack of robust policy and strategic plans and so on. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first introduction chapter consists of background of the study, statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, rationale of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, second chapter deals with the review of theoretical as well as empirical literature and its implication for the study.Moreover, it also includes the conceptual framework. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology of the study which covers design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy, vii research tools, sources of data, data collection procedures, data analysis procedures, and ethical considerations. Similarly, the fourth chapter includes results and discussion. Finally,the fifth chapter incorporates conclusion and recommendations of this research.