Teachers’ Perceptions on the Influence of Motivational Strategies on Students’ Learning in Public Secondary Schools: A Case of Bariadi Town Council.

Dhahabu, Stanley Onay (2022) Teachers’ Perceptions on the Influence of Motivational Strategies on Students’ Learning in Public Secondary Schools: A Case of Bariadi Town Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine teachers’ perception on the influence of motivational strategies on students learning in public secondary schools. The study was conducted in Bariadi Township Council. The study intended to explore three major objectives. (i) To identify the strategies that teachers use to motivate students learning (ii) to examine teachers’ perception on the influence of their motivational strategies on students learning (iii) to explore the challenges that teachers face when motivating students to learn. Explanatory research design was adopted. The data were collected through Questionnaire survey, semi-structured interview. A representative of 121 respondents was drawn. These were transcribed and interpreted and subsequently analyzed through content analysis and licket scale analysis. The findings revealed that there were some prominent motivational strategies that motivated students to learn. It was found that, teachers’ perception influenced students learning habit and outputs, it also influenced motivational strategies. The findings further revealed that there were some few challenges encountered by teachers when motivating students in the process of learning. The study concluded that, there were some strategies that were mostly used by teachers to motivate students during the process of learning. Teachers having positive perception to students influenced students to ask questions during class session. However, the challenges in the study area were few, which were; schools did not provide sex education, guidance and cancelling to students, schools did not motivate their learning. Not only those but also schools did not make students regard their teachers as guardians. The study recommended that teachers should increase more efforts to encourage and motivate students. It also recommends that teachers should have positive perception towards students. Keywords: Motivation, Motivation strategies and Student’s learning

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