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This paper presents the importance of professional development for teachers in Al-Buraq School for Basic Education and to what extent it plays a vital role in improving their teaching and performance. Studying this topic is a way to figure out teachers’ attitudes towards professional development and the change it might cause to affect their behaviors and beliefs about gaining new skills, methods, strategies of effective teaching. “Teacher development is a professional growth a teacher achieves as a result of gaining increased experience and examining his or his teaching systematically” (Glathorn, 1995). To do this project we found ourselves totally surrounded with different types of teachers: teachers who are highly motivated, passionate and strongly enthusiastic to the work, teachers who lack motivation, and teachers who are relatively motivated to the teaching profession in different ways. A questionnaire was used to collect data about this subject. Teachers participated fully in answering the required information within the limited time. Accordingly, the questionnaires have been analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program version 19. The results are shown in the tables below and it showed that teachers have really positive attitudes towards continuing their professional development. In addition, we came up with great evidences of the necessity of top management supports for training courses. It also emphasizes that there is a real significant relationship between professional development courses and learners’ outcomes.

The popularity of social networking sites is constantly growing among the iGeneration. This study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of TikTokActiV as a tool for teaching and improving ESL pupils’ writing skill focusing on action verbs. The respondents of this study comprise of 60 primary school pupils from a rural school, a sub-urban school and an urban school in southern part of Malaysia. The pupils’ writing skill development were measured using pre and post-test containing 20 questions. Action research design was used to understand the effectiveness of using ‘TikTokActiV’. The pre-test and post-test conclude that by incorporating TikTokActiV as a teaching tool in English language classrooms, pupils will have significant improvements in ESL writing skills.