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This study involved the assessment of the mobility of public school teachers and its
effects on academic performance. Despite the efforts made by the Ministry of Education
and Vocational training (MoEVT) to train many teachers and hence to expand secondary
schools but it has been revealed that there has been acute shortage of teachers, thus
undermining the quality of education in Tanzania. For this reason the study aimed at
examining causes, effects and strategies of curbing frequent teachers’ mobility. Both
qualitative and quantitative types of research design were applied and the data collection
methods included interviews, likert scale, questionnaire and documentation. The
sampling techniques were multi-stage, purposive and simple random sampling and
respondents were D S E O, heads of schools, teachers and students. The study revealed
that teachers’ mobility was caused by teachers’ maternity leave, teachers’ transfer,
change of profession or other career such as to join in a business, leaves for training,
moved from public to private schools and quit the job. The effects on teachers’ mobility
were- It takes a long time to replace another new teacher, subjects remains untaught for
an unknown period, students felt bad, performed poorly academically, and lost hope of
getting another new teacher after one to leave. The efforts in place to curb mobility of
teachers were organizing workshop and seminars and academic contribution from the
parents to motivate teachers. To conclude that there is a need to take possible measures
to replace a teacher as soon as possible, particularly when one went for maternity leave,
training and shifted to private schools. |
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