FACTORSAFFECTINGTEACHERSMOTIVATIONINBONOSHA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

Teachers’ motivation is very much essential for quality of education. Therefore this study was designed to examine factors affecting motivational level of primary school teachers in Bonosha.The objectives of the study were to identify the factors that affect teachers ’ motivation, investigate factors that have more effect on teachers ’ motivation and to determine school principals ’ effort to maximize teachers’ motivation. To conduct this study descriptive survey method was employed on 6schools found in four sub town of Bonosha. Sources of the data were primary and secondary data. The primary sources of data were teachers, principals and supervisors. The secondary data were documents found in the sample schools. Samples of the study were selected using different sampling techniques. Teachers were selected using simple random sampling techniques whereas principals and supervisors were taken for the study using purposive sampling and availability sampling respectively. In order to collect data closed and open ended questionnaires were designed for teachers and supervisors while interview questions were designed for principals. Closed ended questions were analyzed by means of SPSS. The open ended and interview questions were analyzed qualitatively. The analyzed data was presented using tables and percentages. The study has found out factors affecting teacher motivation and the major factors were remuneration, accommodation, school facility and low community respect in addition the study also found out principals’ effort to maximize teachers’ motivation was low. The possible recommendations were increase teachers’ salary so as to enable them satisfy their basic needs ,build houses for teachers full fill teaching material and work on medias to show the importance of teaching profession for the development of a given nation