Rural School Teachers’ Personal Initiative in Improveing Professional Competetnces in West Shewa Zone, Oromiya Regional State, Ethiopia
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
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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
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Rural School Teachers