Continuing Professional Education of Maritime Instructors

This paper hoped to contribute to a reflective understanding of how maritime professors perceive their career and indicates areas that may need to be improved so they can pass their skill, knowledge and operational experience to the future maritime professors. Specifically, profiled the respondents according to their gender, age, and position; determined the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) of maritime professors through competencies on self – management, learning how to learn, acquiring information, and digital competencies; tested the difference of responses on CPE when grouped according to their profile; and proposed a plan to enhance the continuing professional education of the respondents. The researchers employed descriptive research utilizing modified questionnaire which was distributed to 75% of the 28 LIMA faculty members during the 2nd semester of SY 2020-2021. The result revealed that majority are males, in their middle adulthood and teaching for 1 – 5 years. They agreed on the importance of competencies on self-management, learning how to learn, acquiring information and digital competencies to their teaching career. Likewise, it was found out that gender, age, and teaching experience cannot be decisive factors in professional development. It is based on the professors’ interests and intrinsic personalities as they go about their teaching responsibilities.

Keywords – Continuing Professional education, lifelong learning, maritime profession