Bane, Hirpa (2015) Rural School Teachers’ Personal Initiative in Improveing Professional Competetnces in West Shewa Zone, Oromiya Regional State, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards their own professional development, their perception on Major professional development actives and to what degree they make use of this opportunity for improving their professional competencies through their personal initiative. Data were collected through a questionnaire, interview and document analysis. The participants were 137 male and 25 female teachers from ten rural secondary schools in west shewa Zone of Oromia which had a total of 561 rural secondary school teachers The data collected were analyzed using statically methods such as mean , percentages ,frequency , t-test , ANOVA and Tukey test .The result of analysis indicated that all teachers ,regardless their sex, qualification age and teaching experiences , have positive attitudes towards their own professional development through personal initiation Majority of the teachers also give much importance to Major professional development activities . Despite the fact that teachers do not make use of these activities as much as they give the importance to .The results of t-test and ANOVA indicated that there is no significant difference between and among group in importance given to and making use of many activities by the background factor .However, female teachers. young teachers and less experienced ones seemed to give more importance to and make use of a few professional development activities than other teacher .It was also indicated must work environment factors that affect their professional development considered importance by teachers .From the finding one could conclude that there is a gap between the importance given to the professional development activists and the actual use of these activities in improving professional competence and that there are work environment factors that received attention of the teachers for improving their own professional development. Therefore, it can be recommended that school ,woreda education office and other responsible bodies need to provide necessary school physical resources and institutional supports such as internet ,library , laboratory etc services to enhance personal initiative professional development for improving their professional competencies.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Kabiru Wallace Ndung'u |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2019 06:20 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2019 06:20 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9425 |
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