Abstract
Teachers are those trained employees who are basically concerned with teaching/learning process in schools. They have a very close contact with their students during working hours daily. Thus they have a great and dominant influence on their students and school. Their positive outlook about their profession is called teacher morale. This study is aimed to investigate the morale as predictor of secondary school teachers’ performance. The objectives of the study were: (1) To investigate the level of Teachers’ Morale at Secondary level. (2) To investigate the relationship between Teachers’ Morale and Students’ Academic Achievement. This study consisted of one major hypothesis and five sub hypothesis. For this study, sample of 280 teachers were selected from the population of 5878 Government secondary school teachers of southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Standardized Questionnaire was used for the data collection. The data was analyzed through SPSS-20. The frequency, percentages and Pearson’s correlation ‘r’ statistic was applied for analysis of data. Findings of the study shows that the teachers are overall agree about their rapport with school head. There is overall positive correlation between teachers’ morale and student academic achievement. The hypothesis of no relationship between teacher morale and student academic achievement is rejected. It is required that the government may take steps for the increasing of teacher salaries. Teachers should be encouraged by lessening their work load. Curriculum should be revised and modified according to the changing needs of society.
Tazeem Akhtar, , Rahmat Ullah Shah, Safdar Rehman Ghazi, Yasir Khan Khalil. (2016) Morale as Predictor of Secondary School Teachers’ Performance: A Study of the Schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, The Dialogue, Volume 11, Issue 4.
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