The Covid-19 pandemic has posed various challenges particularly in the education sector where the
‘new normal’ experience is all about online interaction and distance learning. As the health protocols
enforce physical distancing measures, actual and personal interaction and engagements are limited.
As teacher professional development (TPD) becomes a melting pot of best practices and strategies
that work, teachers receive a perspective that helps them create their own professional vision.
The findings of this study revealed that for teachers, TPD is a route to enhance and upgrade their
knowledge and skills and professional growth, with teaching as a life-long learning process. Pre-
Covid-19 TPD programs included initiatives on content, pedagogy and technology, action learning,
graduate studies, leadership and management, and action research. During the pandemic, teachers
were exposed to webinars and training on online teaching and learning, technological capacity, and
mental health. Regardless of age and years of teaching experience, teachers have a mindset to grow
in the profession and be better educators. They want to unlearn the old, and relearn new knowledge
and skills because they want their students to learn according to their current needs and what the
world needs in the future.