The Relationship Between Teachers’Job Satisfaction and Their Professional Development

atisfaction are two important variables affecting teachers’ performance and effectiveness. Many studies have focused on the relationship or the effect of professional development with or on teachers’ job satisfaction. Few studies have also studied the effects of teachers’ job satisfaction on their professional development practices and activities. These studies show that there is a two-sided, bidirectional relationship between professional development and job satisfaction, which means that the two affect each other and are dependent on each other. In this regard, the self-initiated sense of professional development can create levels of job satisfaction that are under the control of teachers, independent of any external factor. After discussing these two concepts, the present article highlights the strategy for achieving such satisfaction.