Influence of continuous professional development activities on senior high school teachers’ job performance in Birim Central Municipality

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.