Role of Teachers’ Behaviour as a Facilitator in Students’ Motivation at Secondary School Level: An Analysis

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the, “Role of Teachers’ Behaviour as a Facilitator in Students’ Motivation at Secondary School Level”. The study was survey and descriptive in nature. The quantitative as well as qualitative (QUAN-qual.) method was adopted. The explanatory sequential approach was used and cluster random sampling was adopted. The sample of study consisted 400 including 16 head teachers, 64 secondary school teachers, 320 students of secondary classes. The questionnaire was developed as a research tool for data collection. The collected data was fed into data sheet. The validity of questionnaire was ensured through experts’ opinion and reliability was calculated through Cronbach Alpha. The study found that 97% of head teachers, SSTs and students strongly agreed about teacher as a facilitator of students to self-explore the required answers. Mean score 4.58 and standard deviation 0.553 supported. The study concluded that gender-based collective data reflects that male teachers as facilitator perform well than female teachers and locality-based collective data reflects that rural teachers as facilitator perform well than urban. The study recommended that teachers may be facilitator of students to motivate them towards learning.