scholarly journals The Relationship between Teacher Commitment and Effective Teaching Practices in Rural Primary School in Ranau, Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Gunasegaran Karuppannan ◽  
Suridi Jalani

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between teacher commitment and the effective teaching practice at rural primary schools in Ranau District, Malaysia. Teacher commitments consist of commitment to the school, pupils, career, and decision making. A total of 80 respondents were involved in this study. This study was conducted using survey method with questionnaire as the research instrument. The findings were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software with t-Test statistic, Pearson Correlation and Regression. The results from the data analysis found that the score for the teacher commitment level and the effective teaching were high. Pearson Correlation test had shown that there was a weak correlation between teacher commitment to school and effective teaching at r = 0.304, p < 0.05. The Linear Regression test found that the teacher commitment to the school was the main factor that contributes to the effective teaching. The demographic aspects of gender were not significantly different from the teacher commitment and the effective teaching practices. This study emphasized further research to determine the factors that influence the commitment of teachers, the effectiveness of teaching practices and the appropriate methods to improve both aspects.

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. ar46
Author(s):  
Deborah South Richardson ◽  
Robert S. Bledsoe ◽  
Zaraly Cortez

This article reports a study of the relationships among instructor mindset, attitudes about motivation (mastery orientation), and effective teaching practices. Mastery orientation mediates the relationship between mindset and teaching behavior, providing support for Dweck’s model of implicit theories of personality and motivation.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Noraziyanah Md Jais ◽  
Aida Hanim A. Hamid

The School Transformation Program 2025 (TS25) is an initiative of the Ministry of Education Malaysia to increase student success in schools through effective leadership, competent teachers and strong commitment of the Parent-Teacher Association (PIBG). However, at the same time, the literature review shows that the percentage of teachers’ commitment to some schools in Malaysia is still at a moderate level. The causes of decreasing teacher commitment in school include one-way communication, interpersonal relationship and weak leadership style among administrators toward the organization. Therefore, this article determines to identify and discusses findings the practice of leadership multidimensional among headteachers and its relationship with teacher's commitment under the School Transformation Program 2025 (TS25). A descriptive quantitative study and involved 33 respondents from two Primary School Transformation Program 2025 (TS25) in Kuala Lipis Pahang selected through the stratified sampling technique. This study using questionnaires as a research instrument. Pearson Correlation test was used to determine the relationship between multidimensional leadership practices among headteachers with a teacher's commitment. The research finding showed that the leadership multidimensional practices among headteachers' under the School Transformation Program 2025 (TS25) were high (mean = 3.48). The research finding also showed that the level of teacher's commitment to primary schools involved in TS25 was moderate (mean = 2.72). Therefore, the findings should be extended to the primary and secondary schools of the School Transformation Program 2025 (TS25) in Malaysia to test the effectiveness of the Multidimensional Leadership among headteachers to enhance teacher commitment to the organization.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 370
Author(s):  
Chiemeke Kingsley Chiedu ◽  
Choi Sang Long ◽  
Hapriza BT Ashar

Employee turnover has become a key performance indicator for many organizations as they struggle to retain talented employees. The negative impact of turnover on organizational performance has continually forced organizational leaders to seek better ways of retaining valuable employees. The relationship between man and work has always attracted the attention of philosophers. A major part of men’s life is spent at work. Work is social reality and social expectation to which men seem to conform. It not only provides status to the individual but also binds him to the society. An employee who is satisfied with his job would perform his duties well and be committed to his job, and subsequently to his organization. This paper examines relationship among job satisfaction, organizational commitment and employees’ turnover intentions at Unilever Corporation in Nigeria. The data for this study was collected from 117 employees currently working at Unilever Nigeria PLC using the survey method via the questionnaire. Pearson Correlation and the multiple regression analysis techniques using the SPSS version 22.0 was used for the data analysis. The findings of the study revealed that both job satisfaction and organizational commitment have significant negative relationship with employee turnover intentions. In addition, organizational commitment was revealed to have a more dorminant influence on employee turnover intentions than job satisfaction. Based on these findings, the implications, recommendations, practice, and theory were discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laly Augustine ◽  
Dr. Romate John ◽  
Dr. Yuju Francis

The researcher in this study explores teachers’ positive emotion of gratitude and its effect on teacher effectiveness. The objective of the study was to discover the relationship between gratitude and teacher effectiveness .The researcher undertook a study in which 65 high school teachers from Karnataka state participated. The researcher has employed simple random method to fulfill the sampling procedure. Gratitude questionnaire (McCullough et al., 2002) and Teacher Effectiveness questionnaire (Kulsum, 2000) were used for data collection via survey method. Pearson Correlation Coefficient was administered to find the correlation of the variables. The findings confirmed that there was positive correlation between gratitude and teacher effectiveness. Moreover, gratitude and factors of teacher effectiveness are also found positive relationship except class management of the teachers. The implications and limitations of the study are also discussed.


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