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Professional development (PD) is a long and continuous journey of any teacher. Through PD activities, teachers have chance to develop their skills and knowledge which directly improve teaching and learning quality within schools. This article presents some literature review on teacher professional development and factors affecting their participation in PD activities. The study also introduces the development and pilot test of instrument to measure the participation in PD of high school teachers in Nghe An province. 102 high school teachers involved in the survey. Findings highlight 6 factors that affect high school teachers’ participation in PD learning including: content of PD, learning community, teachers’ perspective, time, finance, leadership and management