Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to analyze school leaders effort to implement teachers’
continuous professional development in Secondary Schools of East Hararghe Zone. To realize
this purpose, three basic questions: Efforts of school leader to implement CPD program,
challenges to implement CPD and strategy to implement CPD in secondary schools were
raised. To this effect, descriptive survey design that involved quantitative and qualitative
approaches was employed. Data were collected through questionnaires, interview and
document analysis. Primary data sources were 95 teachers and, 66 school leaders. Simple
random sampling technique was employed to proportionally select teachers from 16
secondary schools. While purposive sampling was employed to select school leaders. The
data collected through questionnaire were self-administered and analyzed using percentage,
mean and t-test. Results indicated that school leaders did not have strongly carried out the
tasks of implementing teacher CPD to enhance quality of students learning. The findings
show that inadequate materials for effective professional development activities, shortage of
budget for CPD implementation, time and organization of human power were some of the
observed debilitating factors in CPD activities. With respect to strategies of implementing of
teacher CPD, allocating sufficient budget to practice CPD (for material and learning
facilities) , creating favorable conditions in the school to teachers in implementing CPD
Program, organizing training opportunity based on teachers’ needs, creating team spirit
among teachers and better working atmosphere among the approach to carefully consider
them.
