Worakorn Klinkerd. Professional development of primary English teachers : needs and problems. Master's Degree(Teaching English as a Foreign Language). Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library. : Thammasat University, 2015.
Professional development of primary English teachers : needs and problems
Abstract:
In this study, the purpose was to investigate the needs of primary school English teachers in developing their profession and to find out the problems that primary English teachers encountered when they do professional development. The data was collected from 40 English teachers in private and public schools in the Don Muang District of Bangkok and the research tool was a questionnaire. The data was analyzed by using an SPSS program. The results revealed that primary school English teachers needed to improve their listening and speaking skills most. It was also found that teachers needed to develop themselves by employing information technology (IT) or Internet to improve their profession ; besides, this outcome was associated with the topic of professional development activities that teachers needed to participate in. Concerning problems of their professional development, primary English teachers believed that the training programs held by various organizations lacked ongoing feedback or did not have a follow-up action. In addition, teachers faced problems about time constraints because of their workload, so they could not develop their profession
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