Abstract:
This study attempts to find out the effects of teachers’ level of motivation on their occupational
experience in the Jirapa Municipality of the Upper West Region in Ghana taking the Ullo Senior
High School as a case study. A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect data. Simple
random sampling was used to select the respondents, and purposive sampling was used to select
the respondents from each of the school according to the various departments. The sample size
was 150 consisting of 75 females and 75 males. A total of 150 questionnaires were administered
to teachers of Ullo Senior High School and all the 150 questionnaires were returned fully and
appropriately filled. The study made use of descriptive statistics in the form of frequencies,
percentages, tables and charts to analyze the results. The study found out that the overall level of
motivation of the teachers is low. Low level of salaries and poor conditions of service are the main
causes of low motivation of teachers in the selected senior high school. It is recommended that
Ghana Education Service (GES) should improve the conditions of service of teachers.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Educational Leadership, Faculty of Education and
Communication Sciences, submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, Akenten Appiah Menka University of Skills Training And Entrepreneurial Development in partial
Fulfillment of the requirements for the award of Masters of Arts (Educational Leadership)
degree
DECEMBER, 2020
