Abstract

• The major purpose of this study is to investigate teacher educators in the Education Colleges (ECs) in Myanmar on their knowledge concerned with their fields of studies, their values and their effort in performing their educational tasks. On the other hand, this study is to enlighten the importance of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and arouse those teacher educators to make effort for their professional development (PD). Based on the theories and research papers concerning CPD, analyzing the problems, developing the research questions, preparing questionnaires, collecting data, analyzing information and interpreting the collected data were systematically done. By using the random sampling method 4 ECs (Thingangyun, Pathein, Taunggoo, and Hlegu) were chosen to be investigated. The result supposed that teacher educators can describe what CPD is in their own words, currently they are conducting CPD activities, they have positive attitude towards CPD, most of those have future plan to conduct PD activities, although they have some drawback and barriers, they have desire to implement by observing others’ performances, accepting suggestions and reflecting themselves. It is hoped that this research can directly support teacher educators of Education Colleges, especially on how they can improve their PD. It is also hoped to support not only for staff development but also for producing qualified teachers.