For teachers, advancing professionally and getting job promotions are essential because they encourage hard work and high-quality work. Promotion affects employee performance significantly, and professional development has a significant positive effect on teachers' work commitment while achieving this is consistently coupled with challenges; this study was to identify the challenges teachers encounter in their pursuit of job promotion and growth as professionals. The research sample comprised thirteen participants at the Philippines' Division of Misamis Oriental at the Tagoloan Central School selected through purposive sampling and used a qualitative methodology with a phenomenological resea... More >