Motivation and teachers performance in public and private primary schools

Adiema, Anna J. (2023) Motivation and teachers performance in public and private primary schools. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Motivation encourages teachers to facilitate knowledge and skills of academic to learners. Therefore, this study attempted to found the relationship between motivation and teacher's performance; factors that affect teacher's motivation and determine the motivational differences in public and private primary schools in Musoma Municipality. Descriptive survey research design was adopted to get information through structured questionnaires and interview schedules with 192 primary school teachers, 30 head teachers, two education officers, one academic officer, twelve management Education coordinate one teacher's service commission and twelve school board members. The key study findings showed that the performance of teachers were high although their payment were low to encourage them to work hard. The findings also revealed that most teachers facilitate teaching and learning process with high confidence and efficiency, due to evidence that most of them came early to school, provide tests and examinations to learners and marked them, also they attend staff meetings and other activities out of teaching and learning process. The study found the correlation between motivation, mostly intrinsic motivation and the performance of teachers in public and private primary schools was also existed in primary schools in Musoma municipality. The study suggested that in order to get better motivation and performance in teaching and learning process the ministry of education should strengthen quality supervision as well as acknowledging good performers, among others. Keywords: Motivation, Teachers Motivation, Public Primary School, Private Primary Schools

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