The Role of Teachers’ Professional Development in Improving Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools: A Case of Ubungo Municipality.

Kannonyele, Blandina (2023) The Role of Teachers’ Professional Development in Improving Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools: A Case of Ubungo Municipality. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study focused on the role of teachers’ professional development in improving teaching and learning in secondary schools: a case of Ubungo Municipality. The study was guided by three objectives: to examine teachers’ knowledge on the role of teachers’ professional development in teaching and learning process at public secondary schools; to explore factors which hinder regular provision of teachers’ professional development in public secondary schools and to assess the strategies of improving teachers’ professional development programs. The study employed mixed methods approach and a case study design. In data collection, it used questionnaire and interviews. The results indicated that, there were evidences that teachers to some extent benefited from the TPD, as they were able to improve their teaching skills; build up skills in assessment after attending seminars in marking examinations; they were able to improve their ability to manage classrooms and use of ICT in teaching. The results further indicate that the TPD was efficiently done as it was encroached with issues of identifying appropriate time for trainings, shortages of funds, unclear policy to manage TPD and irrelevant training programmes to teachers. The study identified several strategies to improve TPD programmes. These were; networking agencies which offer teacher professional development, use of ICT in training, integrate school coordinators to do the TPD under one authority, review the policy to include the strategic plan for effective TPD and allocating enough funds for training teachers. The main recommendation is to improve the situation is for the government to play a leading role in organizing teachers’ professional development trainings. Keywords: Teachers’ professional development, teaching and learning

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