This work presents research results on teachers' opinions about the ways their educational needs are examined, on the professional support available to them for the creation of continuous professional training programmes and on the differences in their understanding of the need to create personal (individual) continuous professional training program. The research included 434 interviewees - 304 primary school class teachers and single subject teachers in sixteen primary schools and 130 secondary school vocational subject teachers in sixteen vocational schools in thirteen Croatian counties and the City of Zagreb. The research drew attention to and emphasized the need to examine teachers' educational needs and to align those needs with professional training contents and its relevance to the professional work of teachers. The research results point to measures and activities for further quality improvement of continuous professional teacher training planning and programming.

Key words: professional teacher training; recording educational needs; program contents