Download or read book Perceptions of High School Teachers on the Influence of Instrinsic and Extrinsic Motivators Teacher Evaluation and Principal Leadership Style on Job Satisfaction written by Jason J. Cordova and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the perceptions of high school teachers on the influence intrinsic and extrinsic motivators, teacher evaluation system, and leadership style have on job satisfaction. Thirty-one high school teachers from four districts throughout the southeastern portion of Pennsylvania participated in this study. Data were collected through the use of an online survey, utilizing selected questions from the 1967 Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, as well as through face-to-face and telephone interviews with six teacher participants. The results suggested that the participating teachers found significant intrinsic satisfaction in serving others, while extrinsically salary ranked low. Furthermore, teachers appeared divided over the impact the teacher evaluations system's effectiveness and its components had on their job satisfaction. In addition, teachers reported the majority of their supervisors utilized transformational leadership, increasing job satisfaction. The results of the study indicated that teachers had higher satisfaction levels towards intrinsic motivators; indifference on the effectiveness and components of the teacher evaluation system; and favored their immediate supervisor but not central office leadership. Since this study was focused on only four school districts in southeastern Pennsylvania, the perceptions of the participants of this study may not be generalized to all teachers. However, the reported perceptions of the teachers in this study were corroborated by other research and may prove beneficial to current and future professionals in the field.
Download or read book Teachers Perceptions Of Principal Leadership Styles written by Mohd Rozi Ismail and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Motivation written by Paul W. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher Motivation: Theory and Practice provides a much needed introduction to the current status and future directions of theory and research on teacher motivation. Although there is a robust literature covering the theory and research on student motivation, until recently there has been comparatively little attention paid to teachers. This volume draws together a decade of work from psychological theorists and researchers interested in what motivates people to choose teaching as a career, what motivates them as they work with students in classrooms, the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic forces on career experiences, and how their motivational profiles vary at different stages of their career. With chapters from leading experts on the topic, this volume provides a critical resource not only for educational psychologists, but also for those working in related fields such as educational leadership, teacher development, policy makers and school psychology.
Download or read book The Motivation to Stay written by Keisha Lashun Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a qualitative study of teachers in high-poverty elementary schools in an urban school district. Participants who have been employed for at least 5 years in a high-needs school responded to surveys tracking their perceptions of their school environment. Follow-up interviews were conducted to provide a more in-depth study to gain further insight into why these teachers chose to work in Title I schools, despite the numerous challenges. Teachers reflected on how the following factors encouraged them to remain employed in the high-needs school setting: intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, professional development, and commitment. The results of this study indicate that teachers choose to continue working in their Title I school setting primarily because of the intrinsic rewards and their high levels of commitment towards serving high-need students. Teachers who participated in this study were highly motivated by their feelings of self-gratification, self-satisfaction, and their ability to effectively support at-risk students. The participants also showed high levels of commitment to their school, despite the challenges that come from working in a Title I school. Extrinsic benefits included positive collegial relationships, support, and cultural diversity. This study’s findings can inform school leaders’ decisions on how to best support high-quality teachers in the schools that need them the most. Investing energy and resources into supporting teachers’ intrinsic needs will motivate teachers to continue working in high need school settings. Teachers also need to continue being exposed to positive and productive professional development opportunities and positive school relationships to improve teacher retention outcomes.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education Empowerment and Control written by Majid Al-Haj and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education, Empowerment, and Control is about the education of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Using a comparative approach, the study throughout juxtaposes Arab and Hebrew educational systems in terms of administration, resources, curricula contents, and returns. Developments in education are analyzed in conjunction with wide demographic, economic, and sociopolitical changes. Al-Haj explores the expectations of the Palestinian community on the one hand and dominant groups on the other, showing that whereas Palestinians have seen education as a source of empowerment, government groups have seen it as a mechanism of social control. The book also sheds light on the wider issue of education and social change among developing minorities in the postcolonial era. Al-Haj examines modernization, underdevelopment, and control in order to delineate the role education plays among a national minority that is marginalized at the group level and denied access to the national opportunity structure.
Download or read book The Job Satisfaction Motivational Needs and Perceptions Regarding Their Principal s Leadership Style for Teachers Empowered as Instructional Leaders in the Initiation of a Mentor Teacher Program written by Rhoda Senator Nair and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of Leadership Styles on Teacher Job Satisfaction written by Patricia M. Saxon and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's abstract: The purpose of this mixed methodology case study was to determine the influence that leadership styles had on teacher job satisfaction. The study was conducted in two rural Title I Georgia districts, and the target population was 86 secondary teachers. The principals in the study completed the Path-Goal Leadership Questionnaire that was used to determine their leadership styles. The teachers completed the Teacher Job Satisfaction and Retention Survey that yielded their job satisfaction levels in six categories. The categories were: rapport with principal, satisfaction with teaching, teacher responsibilities and workload, rapport with teachers, curricular and organizational issues, and retention. The teachers' job satisfaction ratings were compared to their principals' leadership styles. All surveys were mailed to the five participating secondary schools, which were three middle and two high schools. The quantitative data analysis that resulted from the leadership and teacher surveys were presented in narrative form with corresponding tables. The Path-Goal Leadership Questionnaire consisted of 20-items. The principals' leadership styles were identified from the ordinal data. The teacher Job Satisfaction and Retention Survey consisted of 34-items that included demographic items. Also, the survey yielded the teachers' job satisfaction levels for the six survey categories. From the Teacher Job Satisfaction and Retention Survey data, 10 teachers were purposefully selected to participate in interviews. The researcher conducted in-depth interviews were conducted to explore the reasons why teachers were satisfied with their teaching positions at their current schools. The qualitative data from the interviews were analyzed by the researcher. The interview responses from all the teachers were categorized by recurring themes, related ideas, and responses pertinent to the purpose of the study. The intent of the analysis of the qualitative data was to further explore and identify the reasons why teachers were satisfied with their jobs. The findings from the quantitative portion of the study yielded that the directive leadership style was the most dominant. The more directive principals were, the higher the teachers' job satisfaction levels. In addition, the demographic data in the study were also used to identify job satisfaction levels. The data revealed that teachers who were teaching non-content related courses such as fine arts, physical education, and technical courses had higher job satisfaction levels. Also, teachers who had taught at their current schools for 16 or more years had a job satisfaction level of 3.14 on a four-point Likert scale. The qualitative findings of this study revealed that the reasons the teachers were satisfied teaching at their current schools was because their principals were very supportive. They provided the teachers with the necessary materials that they needed to perform their jobs effectively. In addition, the principals allowed their teachers to participate in making instructional decisions that affected the teachers directly. The teachers were also satisfied with the rapport that they had with their students. Educators enjoyed teaching their content and their students. Teachers believed that the strong positive relationships with their students and colleagues were also reasons why they enjoyed teaching at their current schools. The results of this study were pertinent to school districts that want to maintain a positive school culture and retain their current teachers.
Download or read book A Study of the Perceptions of Elementary School Teachers Regarding Leadership Style and Its Influence Upon Teacher Job Satisfaction written by Conca, Hope Maria and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Empowerment of Teachers written by Gene I. Maeroff and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the teaching profession is demoralized, suggests that teachers should be given greater power, and tells how to assure the quality of education in America
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Download or read book The Relationship Between Leadership Behavior the Thirteen Core Competencies and Teacher Job Satisfaction written by Detris Nanette Crane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if teacher job satisfaction is enhanced when principals value and exhibit behaviors informed by the 13 core competencies. Principals and teachers from 70 elementary, middle, and high schools in the southeast United States participated in the study. The Leadership Behavior Inventory was used to collect information regarding principal behavior, as perceived by principals and teachers. The Purdue Teacher Opinionaire was used to collect information from teachers regarding job satisfaction. Results indicated that principals valued the 13 core competencies and frequently used them in the administration of their schools, as perceived by teachers and principals. Leadership behavior, informed by the 13 core competencies, and teacher job satisfaction were significantly correlated. These findings support that leader behavior impacts teacher job satisfaction. Principals who perceive the 13 core competencies to be important and who exhibit behavior informed by the competencies, are likely to have teachers who experience greater satisfaction than teachers under the auspices of principals not subscribing to the core competencies. .
Download or read book High School Teachers Perceptions of Their Principal s Observation Feedback and Its Influence on Their Teaching Practice written by Tracy Eileen Scott and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this quantitative, descriptive, non-experimental survey research study was to determine the perceptions high school teachers have regarding their principal’s observation feedback and how their instructional practice may be influenced by the feedback. This study was selected out of the need to learn from high school teachers how their principal’s observation feedback may be used to improve their instructional practice. As part of this study, a survey was used to collect data from certified high school teachers in a large, suburban school district in southeastern Pennsylvania. Data on teachers’ perceptions of their principals’ feedback after informal and formal observations was collected and analyzed to determine if teachers perceive the feedback they received from their principal was useful in improving their instructional practice. The data showed that high school teachers in this study responded to questions regarding their principals’ observation feedback during informal and formal observations positively. Most teachers responded that they agreed the feedback they received from their principal, especially during formal observations, was helpful and positive. While study participants’ responded that the feedback they received from their principal was positive and helpful, it is uncertain if high school teachers will use the feedback they receive from their principal to make changes to the instructional practice. As well, while the feedback was positive, some of the comments collected from the open-ended questions, especially regarding the informal observation feedback, were negative regarding the observation process. The findings in this research study may benefit school districts in developing professional development opportunities for principals and teachers with respect to school improvement and best practices for providing and using feedback effectively. This research may be used as a basis for the development of best practice protocols for principal-teacher collaboration to improve the instructional practices of teachers and improve the capacity of principals as effective instructional leaders. It may also support how principals provide feedback to their teachers.
Download or read book Elementary School Teachers Perceptions of Leadership Behavior and Job Satisfaction written by Angela L. Askew and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the relationship between elementary teachers' perceptions of their principal's leadership behavior and how these perceptions relate to their job satisfaction. Perceptions were measured by the Leadership Behavior Instrument and the Job Satisfaction Survey. The respondents for the surveys worked in Southeast Tennessee and Northeast Mississippi. This study was guided by the following four questions: 1: How do elementary teachers perceive the leadership behavior of principals in the domains of human relations, trust/decision making, instructional leadership, control, and conflict; 2) To what extent to elementary teachers express satisfaction with their jobs in the domains of supervision, contingent rewards, operating procedures, coworkers, nature of work, and communication; 3) What is the relationship between elementary teachers' perceptions of their leaders' leadership behaviors in the domains of human relations, trust/decision making, instructional leadership, control, and conflict and their overall job satisfaction; and 4) Are there differences in the extent of the relationship between teachers' perceptions of their leaders' leadership behaviors in the five domains, and their overall job satisfaction by variables such as level of education, amount of time at current school, and years of teaching experience? The results of this study indicated that there is a strong correlation between teachers' perceptions of leadership behavior and their job satisfaction. The results of this study did not find a significant correlation between job satisfaction and level of education, amount of time at current school, and years of teaching experience.
Download or read book The Impact of Teacher Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation on Teacher Self efficacy written by Sallie Johnakin-Putnam and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher recruitment and retention is a growing concern for educational organizations. This is in large part due to the increasing work demands and underfunding of public funding. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teacher motivation and the adaptive factor of self-efficacy. The theoretical frameworks of Bandura’s social learning theory, Deci and Ryan’s self-determination theory, and Rotter’s locus of control theory were used to guide this study. The researcher used a quantitative correlation study to examine the relationship between self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and overall motivation. The two surveys were given to 130 elementary school teachers from two school districts in a southeastern state. The Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) and Work Tasks Motivation Scale for Teachers (WTMST) surveys were used to measure perceived teacher self-efficacy and motivational beliefs. Pearson product-moment correlations were used to measure the relationship between the dependent variable (teacher self-efficacy) and the independent variables (intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation). Data analysis revealed a positive correlation between self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation; however, no relationship was found between self-efficacy and extrinsic motivation nor overall motivation. Recommendations for future research include replicating this study using both elementary and secondary teachers as well as utilizing demographics to determine generalizations about teacher self-efficacy and motivation.
