TITLE:
A Survey on the Current Situation of Teacher Motivation in Public Junior Middle Schools in Western China
AUTHORS:
Peidong Su, Yuanyuan Wang
KEYWORDS:
Teacher Motivation, Public Junior Middle School in Western China, Survey
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.1,
January
11,
2023
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.