Emerging Challenges of Teacher Professional Development in Science, Technology and Mathematics Education in Nigeria

AbstractThe study investigated emerging challenges of teacher professional development in science, technology andmathematics education. Two research questions guided the study. The study adopted the descriptive surveydesign. Multi-Stage sampling was used to draw a sample of 200 teachers. Questionnaire tagged EmergingChallenges of Teacher Professional Development (ECTPD) with overall reliability coefficient of 0.80 asdetermined by using cronbach Alpha, was used for data collection. Arithmetic mean was used to analyze thedata. Findings revealed to a high extent that emerging challenges of teacher professional development, include;lack of resources, infrastructures, training facilities, technology integration skills, funding, monitoring,collaboration and networking, mentoring and inadequate support. Based on these findings, it was recommendedamong others that government, institutions and stakeholders should collaborate and find solutions to thesechallenges.