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    An Assessment of Teachers Turnover in North Western Zone of Secondary Schools of Tigray Regional state
    (Addis Ababa Univerisity, 2014-06) Teklemariam, Hagos; Tizazu, Getnet (PhD
    The main purpose of this study was to identify the major causes for teachers’ turnover and its implications to the teaching learning process in Northern West Zone of Tigray Regional State. A descriptive survey method and in-depth interviews were used in order to obtain pertinent information on the current state of problems of teachers’ turnover in the zone. Five woredas and eight secondary schools were included in the study using stratified sampling technique. The study had two groups of respondents that included 136 existing and 7 former teachers. While stratified random sampling was used selecting for existing teachers and snowball sampling was used to choosing subject of former teachers. Interviews were conducted with former teachers as well as school principals, woreda education heads and experts. Research data secured through questionnaire, interview and document analysis were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean scores, Chi-square and the data collected was transcribed, translated to English & then analyzed qualitatively. The study showed that the annual average teacher turnover in secondary schools of the zone for the last five years (2008/09– 2012/13) was 10.3% with the highest (16.6%) in Asgede Thimbla woreda and the lowest (6.7%) in Tahtay-Koraro woreda. Sex wise 12.3% of female and 9.9% of male teachers left secondary schools of the zone for the last five years. Teachers with less than eleven years of experience quit teaching in secondary schools than teachers above ten years of work experience. Moreover, teachers who specialized in natural science comprised the highest group of leavers; and the trend of teachers’ turnover seems likely to continue. Results also revealed that the existing and former teachers joined the teaching profession not because they like it, but because they had no other alternatives. In addition to this, teachers become dissatisfied with both working conditions and work itself in schools. The existing teachers intended to leave and former teachers quitted from teaching in secondary schools mainly due to: economic factors (inadequate salary and lack of incentives) as compared to other civil service servants with similar qualification and work experience, low social status accorded to teaching profession by the society and the government at large, availability of opportunity of other occupation with better payment and incentives, CPD program, and poor students’ enthusiasm to learn. As a result of teachers’ turnover, instructional activities were interrupted, the remaining teachers were demoralized, work load in education officials and teaching load has increased, Generally, teachers’ turnover in secondary schools of Northern west zone in Tigray regional state was found to be a function of shortage of effective teachers, low teachers commitment, interrupted teaching learning process and performance. This implies to policy makers in the region to change the dissatisfaction level of teachers to be minimized through different mechanisms such as by improving career ladder and incentives, social status of education, working conditions, teacher’s competence through professional development etc.