This study was conducted to analyse the perception of teachers participating in the continuing professional development program at Bahrain Teachers College. It aims at measuring the effectiveness of the program in improving teachers’ skills in light of teachers’ standards that was set by the Ministry of Education in Bahrain. 340 in-service teachers participated in the study. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods were used in data collection; questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data and open-ended questions were used to collect qualitative data. The combination of qualitative and quantitative method in this study, known as Triangulation, aims at addressing the problem in question from different angles to strengthen the validity of the data. The results of the study showed that in-service teachers expressed high appreciation for the role of the continuing development program in enhancing their capabilities based on teachers’ standards (with an arithmetic mean of 3.89 and standard deviation of 0.69)
The Effectiveness Of Continuing Professional Development Program In Enhancing Teachers’ Competencies To Achieve Teachers’ Standards
Research Article
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2019.1002.3159
Subject:
science
KeyWords:
Professional development, teachers’ standards, commitment to the profession, commitment to students, commitment to teaching and learning, commitment to parents, commitment to the community and school
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