School Climate and Teachers’job Performance in Addis Ababa City Adiministration: The Case of Nifas Silk Lafto Sub City Secondary Schools.
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this study is examine ''School Climate and Teachers 'job Performance in Addis Ababa City Administration: The case of Nifas Silk Lafto Sub City Secondary Schools. The research design employed in the study was descriptive survey. The research method was both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The sampling techniques employed were purposive, availability and simple random sampling. The sample size was 205 teachers, 16 principals, 4 supervisors with the total of 225 participants out of 536 study populations. The data gathering tools were questionnaire, interview and document analysis. The participants of interview were principals, and supervisors. Questionnaires were administered to 205 teachers, all of them properly filled and returned. Then, the information gathered through close-ended questionnaire was analyzed using percentage and mean score while the information gathered through interview and open-ended questions were narrated qualitatively. Results of document analysis were also described. The results of the study indicated School Climate and Teachers 'job Performance , achievement and also the extent to which different stakeholders such as principals, teachers, school communities and the like played role to overcome the problem of school climate. The school principals, supervisors were providing low level of activities on school climate. The major challenges identified were, lack of training, lack of plan on classroom management, lack of commitment, lack of parents’ participation, disciplinary problems, lack of inadequate classroom, school facilities, educational inputs and lack of experience sharing and on job training insufficient allocation of budget. To overcome the challenges encountered, recommendations have been forwarded to school Principals, Supervisors, Sub-City education office and stakeholders. These are include preparing plan on classroom management, orienting teachers in advance with the overall implementation of classroom management, parents should advice their children and follow them at school, motivating all stakeholders to willingly take more responsibilities in the implementation process, and allocation of sufficient resources by education office to effectively achieve the intended goals.
Key words: Effects of School climate, Job performance, Teachers