A Survey on the Current Situation of Teacher Motivation in Public Junior Middle Schools in Western China

Abstract

Public junior middle school teachers in western China are an important force in building a high-quality education system. Optimizing teacher motivation measures plays an important role in improving teachers’ work efficiency and improving the quality of school running. At present, there are relatively few investigations and studies on the implementation of the motivation measures for public junior middle school teachers in western China, which limits the accuracy of improving the motivation measures for teachers to a certain extent. Based on the survey of 551 teachers in western public junior middle schools, it is found that the overall situation of teacher motivation is still good, but there are also problems such as large differences between dimensions, differences between school administrators and front-line teachers in their understanding of teacher incentives, relatively low salary and welfare levels, and poor motivation effect of professional title evaluation system. The research believes that optimizing the salary growth mechanism, implementing the teacher salary standard, improving the teacher evaluation method, reasonably reducing the burden of teachers, emphasizing the development of teachers, enhancing the effectiveness of teacher training, strengthening the democratic management of schools, and improving the sense of ownership of teachers can effectively improve the effect of teacher motivation.