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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY: SELF-ASSESSMENT IN REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

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  • Journal of Educational and Instructional Studies in the World

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  • 2013

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The results of the empirical testing of the readiness of teachers for professional development using the RPD ( Readiness for Professional Development, Beara & Okanović, 2010 ) scale which consists of 17 items with good reliability have been presented in this paper. This results was correlated with teachers professional identity self-assessment on teachers in Republic of Serbia. Teacher identity have been measured with Cheung ( Cheung, 2008 ) and Jackson ( Jackson, 1981) scale for measuring teacher identity. On the sample of 321 teachers in Republic of Serbia the score of 67.43 was determinated regarding the general readinessfor professional development. Correlation with obtained teacher identity factors was statistical significative ( r>.61 ). Teachers sees professional development as something importrant by itself, first of all for the professionalitasion and modernisation of work in teaching and they are more inclined to taking self-initiative in professional development than to have it regulated by extrinsic motivators.
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