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Teachers' Views on Professional Development

This document contains potential interview questions for teachers about their perceptions of professional development opportunities and impacts on their teaching practice. The questions cover topics like teaching experience, motivations, areas for improvement, understanding of professional development, recent experiences, benefits, deciding on development needs, arranging courses, assessing effectiveness, and views on successful and unsuccessful impacts.

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Teachers' Views on Professional Development

This document contains potential interview questions for teachers about their perceptions of professional development opportunities and impacts on their teaching practice. The questions cover topics like teaching experience, motivations, areas for improvement, understanding of professional development, recent experiences, benefits, deciding on development needs, arranging courses, assessing effectiveness, and views on successful and unsuccessful impacts.

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Teachers Know Best: Teachers’ Perceptions of the Professional Development

on Learning and Teaching in an Orang Asli Primary School

Possible questions for semi-structured interview

How long have you been teaching?


What motivates you to become a teacher?
What are the areas of your teaching practice that you wish to improve?
What do you understand by the term ‘professional development’?
Tell me about your recent professional development experience.
Where there any difficulties or challenges?

What do teachers perceived as the impact of professional development on their


teaching practice?

What are the impacts of professional development courses you have attended on your
teaching?
Can you identify any benefit?
For your own professional development
Teaching practice
Others

How do you decide on the types of professional development that you need to improve your
teaching practice?

Once you have decided that you need to attend a professional development course, how soon
is one arranged for you? How does this affect your teaching? What do you do while waiting for
the course to be arranged for you?
What evidence do teachers use to support their views?

How do you assess the effectiveness of the professional development courses that you have
attended? Has it helped you addressed the initial concern that you have in relation to your
teaching practice?

What are teachers’ views about successful and unsuccessful impact of professional
development on their teaching practice?

Have you experienced any successful or unsuccessful impact of professional


development on your teaching practice? Can you please explain?

How do you think this impact on your teaching practice?

Why do you think that it has successful or unsuccessful impact on your teaching practice?

What impact has professional development had on your own professional development?

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