Factors that affect school based teachers continuous professional development in Maiambesa primary school

Abstract

The research was conducted on the topic entitled with “factors that affect school based teachers continuous and professional development (CPD) in MaiAmbesa primary school in woreda Tselemti, Tigray region.” The main aim of that affect school based CPD program via designing effective strategies that improve school based CPD program to ensure the quality of education in Mai-Ambesa primary school. Having this aim in mind, the data was collected from primary school teachers and school leaders. The study was conducted in Mai-Ambesa primary school with 27 male teachers and 4 female teachers 31 total teachers and 3 school leaders. The sample size was selected through selecting the whole respondents for data analysis and interpretation; both rating school and description were used. This study found that CPD plan in Mai-Ambesa primary school do not indicate clear producers for identifying and aligning training needs of the school and teachers. Besides, time constraint on the parts teachers, lack of well trained facilitators, lack of well trained mentors, lack of commitment and awareness on the part of teachers, and unclear direction of CPD are the main factors that deter the implementation of teachers CPD in MAPS> Generally, the researcher attempted to provide suggestions to the research problem.