Abstract

• The main purpose of this study is to investigate the teachers’ attitude towards Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Specifically, this study aims to compare the teachers’ attitude towards CPD among three kinds of groups; age level groups (over 40 years and under 40 years), total service level groups (over 15 years and under 15 years) and Education Degree groups (pre-service and in-service). To attain the research objectives, the survey method was used and the used questionnaire contains (45) items for four dimensions (personal competence, pedagogical competence, professional competence and social competence). All high school teachers of the selected sample of 17schools from Naypyitaw Council Region participated in this study. Independent samples ‘t’ test was used to compare significant differences between the groups. According to the results, younger, less service and education degree (pre-service) teachers have more positive attitudes than older, more service and education degree (in-service) teachers towards CPD. According to the results, 90.8% of teachers have a positive attitude towards CPD. They agreed that CPD can promote the competences of teachers and they have the willingness to continue their CPD to promote their competences. Therefore, CPD should be implemented at every school to promote the competences of teachers. Moreover, the Ministry of Education needs to recruit more effective CPD activities to meet the present demands of teachers.