Teachers' Perceptions towards Continuing Professional Development
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The present study entitled, Teachers' Perception Towards Continuing Professional Development was carried to explore the EFL teachers’ perceptions towards continuous professional development and the CPD activities that the teachers were engaged in. I used survey research design to accomplish this study. The population of the study were all the EFL teachers teaching at secondary level. I collected the data from thirty secondary level EFL teachers teaching at secondary level in Kirtipur Municipality by using simple random sampling strategy. A set of questionnaire that included close and open ended questions was used as the tool for data collection. The research found that found that a good majority of the teachers agreed that CPD inspires them to be more creative and innovative in their profession. Similarly, teachers were participated in different continual professional development activities such as: talking with colleagues and developing networking with teachers from outside, watching Youtube videos and learning through web based videos, reading books/ articles available in the work place, attending workshops/ seminars/ conferences, peer observation, taking courses for higher qualification (M.Phil./Ph.D.) and conducting personal research and reviewing the journals. The most preferred activity for their CPD was talking with teachers and developing networking with teachers from outside and the least preferred activity was conducting personal research.
This thesis has five chapters. The first chapter gives an overview of the thesis along with background and context of the study, objective of carrying out the research, significance of the research, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. Whereas, the second chapter contains the relevant literature review, implications of the review of the study and conceptual framework. On the other hand, the third chapter deals with the methods and procedures followed to collect data for this study and instruments used to collect the data. While, the fourth chapter encompasses analysis and interpretation of the data. It presents the responses of the participants about the issues of the research. The fifth chapter provides the discussion on the result of the study that was analyzed in Chapter Four. It also contains recommendations for the policy level, practice level and further research level. In the end, at final section, references and appendices are included.