Abstract:
Continuous professional development activities are the means to update and improve
the competencies, knowledge and skills of teachers in every education. The research
study aims to find out the influence of Continuous Professional Development
activities on SHS teachers performance in Birim Central Municipality in Eastern
region of Ghana. The data was collected using questionnaires. The research design
was a cross-sectional survey. Descriptive statistics like frequency, percentage, bar
chart, pie chart, mean (M) and standard deviation (SD) and inferential statistics like
regression were used. The research study employed census as sampling technique.
The total population was 330 but 196 questionnaires were completed and returned.
The data were collected within two months after appropriate permissions were taken
from the Department of Educational Administration and Management and the Heads
in the selected Senior High Schools in the Birim Central Municipality. The
questionnaires were self-administered. The key finding focus on the influence of
Continuous Professional Development activities on SHS teachers’ performance in
relation to classroom management, assessment tools, instructional delivery and
teachers’ students relationship. The study revealed that CPD activities is a good
predictor of teacher job performance. Major Continuous Professional Development
activities engaged by S.H.S teachers are self-learning; School based workshop and
conferences, and taking training courses or formal study like Sandwich, Regular
courses, and distance courses. The Continuous Professional Development activities
engaged by SHS teachers’ influence their classroom management practices like
control of behaviour and creating of conducive learning environment. Also, SHS
teachers get the competencies in the usage of appropriate pedagogy to deliver the
content knowledge in the classroom. The research study concluded that Continuous
Professional Development activities have positive influence on SHS teachers’
performance in terms of classroom management, good usage of assessment tools,
subject contents, classroom instructional strategies and building good relationship
students. It was also revealed that CPD activities was (Sig. 0.87) a good predictor of
SHS teacher performance in Birim Central Municipality. The study recommended
that the SHS teachers must be encourage to engage in CPD activities since it has
positive influence on their performance in the classroom.
Description:
A thesis in the Department of Educational Administration and Management, Faculty of Educational Studies, submitted to the School of Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Philosophy (Educational Administration and Management) in the University of Education, Winneba
JANUARY, 2022