An Analytical Study of Motivation Upon Teachers in Public Secondary Schools of Nyamagana District in Mwanza City
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This study focused on An Analytical Study of Motivation Upon Teachers in Public
Secondary Schools in Nyamagana district. The study involved 158 informants namely
head of schools, teachers, District educational officer, chairman of CWT, general
secretary of TSD. Simple random sampling was used to get the number of teachers
and purposive sampling was used to get head of schools, District Educational Officer,
chair person of CWT, and general secretary of TSD
Questionnaires and interview method were used to get data from the informants. Both
qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to analyse the collected data. This
study sought to assess teachers motivation towards job satisfaction in public
secondary schools, to examine if teachers are overloaded in teaching load in public
secondary schools, to investigate the impacts of teachers motivation upon academic
excellences in public secondary school, and to evaluate the suggestions of teachers for
improving teachers motivation in public secondary schools
The study found that most of teachers lack of motivation in terms of low salaries and
poor working condition. Also the researcher found that teachers are overloaded in
teaching. Moreover the study found that motivation is important to teachers so as to
increase effectiveness and efficiency to their profession.
This study recommended that government should ensure that it fulfills its duty such as
provision of enough teaching and learning materials, building teachers’ houses as well
as providing teaching allowances to teachers, also teachers should ensure they fulfill
their duties
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Motivation; Secondary Teachers