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Title: Understanding the Teacher Motivation: A Synthesis of Key Influencing Factors from the Literature
Language: English
Authors: Zafarullah Sahito (ORCID 0000-0002-8627-5480), Mazen Omar Almulla, Danish Jumani, Abdulaziz Mohammed Alismail
Source: SAGE Open. 2025 15(4).
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Educational Research, Influences, Faculty Development, Student Motivation, Teacher Student Relationship, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Principals, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Effectiveness, School Culture
DOI: 10.1177/21582440251392703
ISSN: 2158-2440
Abstract: This study explored the factors affecting teacher motivation with recommendations given by the 68 published research studies. The 68 research studies were conducted across the world that is, in the U.S., Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, and Tanzania. This study was conducted to review the recruited published literature based on their results and the way of researching to understand teacher motivation. Furthermore, it was studied from some immense perspectives to highlight the factors affecting teacher motivation contextually to recommend a particular way of coping with the hindering faces of teachers. All the selected studies were conducted with diverse approaches and different contexts providing similar and dissimilar insights as the findings. The core factors of positive and effective teacher motivation include the high salary, financial incentives, the feeling of autonomy, self-motivation, professional development, job design, content knowledge, effective working conditions, performance management system, students' willingness to learn, positive responses from students and using diverse approaches. On the other hand, unfavorable policies regarding teaching, low salaries, lack of resources, and a heavy workload were found the main factors affecting negatively teacher motivation, whose continuity affects the psychological conditions of teachers.
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