The Relationship between Teachers’ Participation in Professional Development Programs and Their Teaching Effectiveness and Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Effective professional development and training of teacher is essential for teaching effectiveness, teachers’ pedagogical development and their job satisfaction. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teachers’ professional development, teaching effectiveness and job satisfaction. The nature of this study was quantitative and co-relational design was applied. The respondents of this study were 220 public school teachers from district Okara. The data were collected through teachers’ professional development scale, teaching effectiveness scale and teachers’ job satisfaction scale. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS and different statistics techniques like mean, SD and relationship analysis (Pearson correlation) were applied. The results of this study indicated the strong positive and significant relationship between teachers' professional development, teaching effectiveness and teachers’ job satisfaction. Further, it is recommended on the basis of findings of study that management authorities of school education department must provide such resources and incentives for professional development, ensure promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous learning and recognizing and rewarding teacher excellence.