Payment Of Teachers Research Articles

THE PROVISION OF CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP BY PTA IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON

The study aimed at investigating the provision of cordial relationship by PTA in the management of public secondary schools in south west region of Cameroon. The study was guided by two specific objectives which are; to find out the extern to which friendly relationship between the PTA and the school administration impacts the management of public secondary schools and how conducive environment provided by the PTA and the principal impact the management of public secondary schools. The exploratory research design was adopted for the study. The target population of the study consisted of teachers, principals and PTA officials in the Fako, Meme, Manyu and Kupe Mauenguba divisions. The sample size of the study consisted of 411 teachers, 34 principals, and 102 PTA officials (34 PTA presidents, 34 PTA treasurers and 34 PTA secretary generals), giving a total of 547 respondents. Data were collected using questionnaire, focus group discussions and interview. The reliability analysis of the questionnaire stood at 0.887. The quantitative data were analysed using both the descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of SPSS 25 while qualitative data were analysed thematically. Findings reviled that Descriptively, 59.3% of PTA officials reported a friendly relationship while 40.7% did not reported a cordial relationship which is significant. Also in aggregate, 65.9% of PTA officials reported a conducive environment with the school administration while 34.1% did not reported a conducive environment with the school administration which is significant. And, further analysis showed that there is a significant, positive and moderate relationship between cordial relationship by PTA and the management of secondary schools (R-value = .308**, p-value = 0.000< 0.05). The positive nature of the relationship implies that management of secondary schools is more likely to be good when the school administration does have healthy cordial relationship with PTA. Therefore, the hypothesis that states there is a significant relationship between cordial relationship by PTAs’ and the management of secondary schools was accepted. In support of the above hypothesis statistics, further analysis using the cross tabulations approach revealed that more of schools with effective management 67.3% are those whose relationship by PTA is cordial which is significantly higher when compared to schools with effective management 40.9% but not having a cordial relationship by PTA (p-value = 0.000 < 0.05). This implies that cordial relationship by PTA significantly affect school management. In addition, the teachers and principals also indicated that cordial relationship between PTA and principals enhances school management, foster the recruitment and payment of teachers as well as provision of infrastructures to the school, contribute in the growth of the school, enhances the attainment of schools goals and objectives, makes it easier for the school to realize it projects, easy communication of school needs and development projects to parents, enable the school to benefit from infrastructural support, and human resources which ease the teaching leaning process, makes it easier for the school to benefit from pedagogic materials and improved school discipline, and help to better lure parents help in the character formation of students. Based on the above findings, it was generally recommended that all PTA should adequately support their schools given that a significant percentage of PTA officials reported little or no support to their school.

Adopting the Factors That Motivate and Sustain Teachers Interest in the Teaching Profession for National Development in Education

This paper sought to adopt the factors that motivate and sustain the teacher’s interest in the teaching profession. This is as a result of a vivid nonchalant attitude exhibited by some of the Nigeria teachers. First, the effect of irregular payment of teachers’ salaries has cause an alarm for the performance of teachers in work. Again, the inadequate promotion of teachers has negative impact in discharging their duties effectively and efficiently, thus this leads to teachers’ low standard of living and sometimes abandons the teaching profession and they look for better paid job. The negligent of teachers’ welfare affect their service and it is cause by the attitude of all that are concern in the school as government the school administrators, school heads even the society at large who does not encourage teachers to put in their best. With these, the researchers adopt expository and descriptive method in carrying out this work. The authors recommend that school heads should make use of correct motivation strategies such as attitude motivation and recognition. Also autocratic/dictatorship leadership style should be discouraged. Again, society should respect and recognize teachers’ position in nation building equally communities should see the school as an institution that inculcate into individual society’s value and norms and see it a responsibility to donate its welfare.

The Effect of Teacher Motivation on Students’ Performance in Biology in Calabar Municipality

The study examined the influence of teacher motivation on students performance in mathematics in Calabar Municipality of Cross River State. The independent variables were examined, three research questions were raised, and three research hypothesis were also formulated. The research design adopted for this study was survey. The sample for the study comprised of 200 Biology students selected from nine (9) public secondary schools in Abak Local Government area The instrument that was used for data collection in this study was questionnaire titled “Teachers’ motivation”(TMQ) and students’ academic performance in Biology Pearson Product Moment Each of the hypotheses was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results obtained from the analysis revealed relationship between the conditions of service and students’ academic performance in Biology, relationship between regular promotion ,regular payment of salary and students’ academic performance in Biology. It was recommended among others that Government should ensure regular payment of teachers salaries and prompt promotion when due to ensure teachers in the study area are motivated to ensure teaching effectiveness to improved students’ academic performance.

A Meta 17 do PNE 2014-2024: Vencimento salarial dos professores da Rede Estadual de Ensino de Mato Grosso do Sul

O artigo analisa a valorização do profissional docente da rede estadual de ensino de Mato Grosso do Sul, no período de 2007 a 2017. O trabalho foi delineado metodologicamente por abordagem critica dialética, estudo documental e bibliográfico, a partir de aproximações possibilitadas pelo estudo dos Planos de Carreiras, Cargos e Remuneração para o Magistério. Com vistas à materialização da Meta 17 do Plano Nacional de Educação (PNE) e suas estratégias, expressas por meio das condições de seus vencimentos salariais, analisa a evolução dos vencimentos inicial e final para professores com jornada de 40 horas. Constatou-se que a particularidade do Plano Estadual de Educação (PEE) do caso do estado de Mato Grosso do Sul mostrou-se tímido na produção de impactos significativos em termos de ganhos e/ou aumentos no vencimento docente, no limite reproduzindo os dispositivos do PNE, como, a princípio, indicavam as políticas de fundos contábeis.

Parents’ Perception of Chemistry Teachers’ Instructional Efficiency in Secondary Schools in Idah Local Government Area, Kogi State

The study investigated the parents’ perception of chemistry teachers’ level of instructional efficiency in secondary schools in Idah Local Government Area of Kogi State. Two research questions guided the study. A descriptive survey design was used.The entire population of 718 parents from 8 public senior secondary schools were samples. The instrument used for data collection was a 22-items structured questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated and the reliability was established using Combach alpha (r=0.77).Mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions. The results revealed the chemistry teachers were inefficient in their following tasks: punctuality to the class, encouraging students to participate in science club, inviting parents/community resource persons as guest instructors among others. Also the study revealed the factors that inhibit chemistry teachers’efficiency in their instructional roles to include: lack of fund, inadequate instructional materials, poor payment/delay in payment of teachers’ salaries, shortage and inadequate training of teachers. Recommendations were made to include that parents should be encouraged to assess chemistry teachers regularly and the feedback should be used to improve chemistry teacher instructional roles among others.

Assessing Effective Utilisation of Instructional Time by Secondary School Teachers in Northern Region, Ghana

This study investigated teachers’ total utilisation of allocated instructional time and its’ effects on students learning in Senior High Schools in Northern Region, Ghana. Despite several conceptual and theoretical models regarding the significance of “time” in effective teaching and learning, little is known on how teachers in Ghana spend their time in the school and how the usage varies across SHS in Ghana. This qualitative-case study investigated teacher use of instructional time and draws its validity from Caroll’s model of school learning (Carroll, 1963) and Bloom’s Mastery learning approach to teaching (Bloom, 1971). The study found that factors that impede total utilisation of instructional time in the selected schools include teacher absenteeism (including maternity and study leave) without alternative arrangement, inadequate preparation, poor teacher-student relationship, teacher involvement in social activities (including social ceremonies) instead of attending to the allotted instructional time, delays at school’s events (including Headmaster’s assembly), and teachers’ attendance to school wide activities (including sporting activities, committee and board meetings). The study therefore recommends effective planning process that accommodates teacher replacement in times of leave, ill-health and other natural phenomenon, and payment of teachers based on instructional time utilisation. Keywords: Effective; Usage; Instructional Time; School DOI : 10.7176/RHSS/9-2-12

DIRECT COMPENSATION MANAGEMENT AS CORRELATE OF TEACHER TASK PERFORMANCE

This study investigated direct compensation management and task performance of teachers in the Public Secondary Schools in Imo State, Nigeria. The purpose was to determine the influence of direct compensation management on the teachers’ task performance in public secondary schools. Three research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A sample of 664 teachers was selected from three education zones by proportional stratified sampling. Systematic sampling was used to identify the individual sample subjects. Data was collected with a researcher constructed questionnaire titled, “Direct Compensation Management and Teacher Task Performance Questionnaire (DCMTTPQ)”, with a reliability coefficient of 0.816. The research questions were analyzed using weighted means and standard deviation while Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation was used to analyze the hypotheses. The results revealed that irregular payment of teachers’ salaries and allowances reduced to a great extent the teachers’ task performance. It also revealed that there is a high and negative correlation between direct compensation management in Imo State public schools and the teachers’ task performance. Based on the findings and conclusion, it was recommended that Imo State Government should be more committed to the welfare of teachers by paying their salaries and allowances as at when due in order to enhance their task performance. The paper also recommended the immediate implementation of 26% of annual budget allocation to education as recommended by UNESCO at both the Federal and State levels to meet up with the demands of teachers’ direct compensation management. Article visualizations:

Penerapan Undang-Undang Nomor 14 Tahun 2005 Terhadap Pelaksanaan Sertifikasi Guru Di Kota Mataram

This study is only aimed at the implementation of the Civil Service certification for teachers in Mataram, starting from the teaching profession allowance arrangement pursuant to Law No. 14 Year 2005, Application of the Law No. 14 Year 2005 in Mataram and the various constraints in the implementation of the Law Law Number 14 Year 2005 in Mataram and proposed solutions to overcome the stretcher. The results of this study found the insinkronisasi the Government Regulation No. 41 of 2009 by the Ministry of Finance (PMK) are used as guidelines in the payment of teachers' professional allowance. It also found the vagueness of norms in Article 35 paragraph (2) of Law No. 14 Year 2005. Although Law No. 14 Year 2005 effective as expected, but there are some obstacles in the implementation of Law No. 14 Year 2005 on the city of Mataram. The solution is that the Minister of Finance to follow the provisions of the Government Regulation Number 41 Year 2009, which ordered that the payments be paid every month teacher certification. To resolve the conflict norms in Article 35 paragraph (2) of Act No. 14 of 2005 so as not to harm the teacher is required to revise Law No. 14 Year 2005 on Teachers and Lecturers, in particular Article 35 paragraph (2) in order to sync with Article 35 paragraph (1).

An analysis of social costs of secondary education in Kenya after the introduction of subsidised secondary education in 2008

The purpose of the study was to evaluate social cost of educating day and a boarding student in secondary schools in Kenya after the introduction of free day secondary education in Kenya by the government in January 2008. After the introduction there were 1.2 million additional students enrolled in the secondary education sector. Saturated and systematic random samplings were used in the study. The sample size was 243 respondents that were distributed as follows; five head teachers, 43 form four teachers, 93 day students and 103 boarding students. The study found out that the direct social cost of educating a boarding and a day student was Ksh 74,140 and Ksh 68,327 respectively. 90.1% of direct social cost was utilised in the payment of teachers’ salaries. The government subsidy has reduced direct private cost to households by 40.22% for day students and 28.23% for boarders, but the direct social cost to the Kenyan taxpayers has increased by 28.23%.

L'enseignement secondaire dans le cadre du “Pombalisme”

The birth of the Portuguese school system can be situated during Pombal's reform of education. The process did not happen in isolation. Besides the Companhia de Jesus' high schools, which were extinguished, there were private colleges for the teaching of Latin, Greek and Rhetoric. Students had to pay a fee and used facilities in teachers' homes. What place did Pombal bestow to these disciplines and to the new colleges? Which models were adopted? Kenneth Maxwell, Marques de Pombal, paradoxo do iluminismo (Rio de Janeiro, 1996), p. 96. The contents of the first step of Pombal's reform stretched from 1759 to 1769. After the closing of the colleges of the Companhia de Jesus and of Evora University, the birth of high school education started with the foundation of feeless schools of Latin, Greek and Rhetoric, in order to secure a medium level of instruction and preparation for university education. The reform included another branch of education: a School of Commerce (Lisbon), and a School of Navigation and Dr...

Proposals for Performance Related Pay for Teachers in English Schools

This review concentrates initially on contextualising and then describing the many policy developments during 1999 and the early part of 2000 concerning the payment of teachers. This is followed by a consideration of the implications for teacher motivation, particularly as interpreted by Richardson working with the NUT (National Union of Teachers) to explore the implications of the new reward strategy. A broader contextualisation includes the implications of evidence from business and the public sector on performance pay. Finally, research into recent developments in teacher pay in the USA is considered as of the greatest relevance for policy developments in England and Wales. The newly formed National Assembly in Wales has distinctive responsibilities for education so this article will only refer to England. This article ranges widely to present performance related pay and performance management in England in early 2000.

Developing Sustainable Day Care Services in Rural Communities of Nigeria

Child care in day care setting has become popular in Nigeria because of its important role of providing early childhood education to pre‐school children as well as play custodial role for mothers while at work. The focus of the study was to determine the level of awareness of mothers and local organizations of the need to develop sustainable community‐based group care facilities for pre‐school in rural areas through cooperative efforts of mothers and local groups in their various localities where such facilities are currently lacking or inadequate. The study was conducted in 40 villages randomly selected from ten local government areas of Osun State of Nigeria. Structured interview schedule was used to collect information from two hundred and thirty mothers while Semi‐structure questionaires were completed by one hundred and sixteen respondents from local organizations. Descriptive statistical techniques like frequency counts, percentages, weighted mean scores, correlation and regression analyses were used. The results showed that majority (93%) of women in the study were married with infants and pre‐school children. They were involved in different types of jobs and spent long hours working outside their homes daily. The mothers' most preferred child care method was Day care/Nursery Schools option with weighted mean scores of 4.88. Forty percent of the local organization involved in the study were willing to contribute towards payment of teachers' salaries, 25% towards the provision of space/classroom blocks while mothers were willing to contribute in the following ways: patronage, policy formating (P.T.A) and provision of teaching materials, toys, play equipment.

‘L’Art Du Possible’, The Board of Education, The Catholic Church and Negotiations Over the White Paper and the Education Bill, 1943–1944

The negotiations between the Board of Education and the Roman Catholic authorities over what was to become the 1944 Education Act began in April 1941 when the Government's Green Book on educational reform was delivered to the Catholic hierarchy. They were to continue until the Government's proposals became law in 1944. There were three distinct phases in these negotiations, centred on the Green Book, the White Paper, and the Bill. The intention of this article is to examine the latter two phases.After protracted negotiations on the Green Book there was near deadlock between the Board and the Catholic Church. R. A. Butler's aim in the Green Book, which he adopted when he became President of the Board of Education in July 1941, was to provide a national system of education, primary, secondary and further. There would be secondary education for all, children being transferred at the age of eleven to grammar, modern or technical schools. This raised the issue of the role of denominational schools, the so called ‘Dual System’. Essentially the voluntary bodies, if they were to continue to be part of the State system were offered two possibilities. Under the first they would receive 100% grant towards the maintenance and repair of buildings (in addition to the payment of teachers’ salaries) for which they would concede the appointment of teachers to the Local Education Authority (LEA) and accept an ‘agreed syllabus’ for religious education. The second possibility would allow the voluntary bodies to retain the appointment of teachers and the teaching of their own religious syllabus, but the Government grant in this case would be only 50%. Catholics felt that, in conscience, they could not accept the first option and that they were being penalised for their religious beliefs in regard to the second. They pressed, therefore, for 100% grant.

Symbolic violence: The disappearance of the individual in marxist thought

According to Pierre Bourdieu, educational systems are characterized by inculcation, by a need to produce and reproduce the structural and relational conditions of their existence. This need fulfills the educational system's social function of passing on the "cultural arbitrary "1 of both the school and the society. Schooling cannot deviate from this function: it must reproduce the relations between groups and classes as they exist in schools and in the adult world (Bourdieu & Passeron, 1977). In their theory of "'symbolic violence "= Bourdieu and his associates pose the phenomenological question: What must an educational system be in order for it to be able to create and maintain the institutional conditions which allow it to produce a "habitus "3 and to assure its misrecognition by students and teachers alike? They found that it was not possible to reduce this question to an historicai search for the social conditions of a particular educational system. Disagreeing with Durkheim (1956) who sought to understand the nature of educational systems by looking to the early Christian habitus and Greco-Roman heritage, they looked at the forms which schooling and society adopt as they try to solve the problems which confront them. They believed that by examining such structures they could come to understand the social forces which gave rise to such social processes as the division of labour and the autonomization of intellectual centres, the development of a bureaucratic organization of educational systems, and so on. Progress made by such systems -- including payment of teachers, organization and training, standardization of educational organizations over a wide area, examinations, civil service status, and the like -- have all been part of the establishment and institutionalization of pedagogic work. Durkheim identified the medieval university as the first educational "system" in Europe because it had within its structure evaluation criteria which validated the results of inculcation (the diploma). This evaluation component was Durkheim's primary consideration because it united the pedagogic action of inculcation and

A new hospital general practice teaching unit

The formation of the latest General Practice Teaching Unit in an Australian hospital is part of a national trend to teach undergraduates and post-graduates about some parts of general practice using patients separated at triage from the accident and emergency departments. Planning this unit required much negotiating between several institutions and a set of guidelines on organisational relationships was created. Innovative features of the Modbury General Practice Teaching Unit include payment of teachers to attend compulsory medical education workshops, dividing the Family Medicine Programme trainee's time between the unit and a neighbouring practice and payment of non-academic general practitioner teachers by the South Australian Government, which eliminates the risk that service interferes with teaching. The Modbury General Practice Teaching Unit is currently the only hospital based unit of this kind in South Australia.

Seeming Inequities in the Payment of Teachers

Seeming Inequities in the Payment of Teachers