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STUDY CASE OF LOW MORALE OF TEACHERS CAUSED BY HIGH LEVELS OF TRUANCY IN THE RURAL SCHOOL
CASE:
You have just been appointed as a principal in a local school located in a rural area. During the first week in the school, you realized that many of the teaching staffs are having low morale because of the problems with truancy and poor performance of the school. You intend to change this situation to enable the school to achieve a better level of performance and improve staff motivation.
In this case, it seems that I am placed as a principal in a rural school that needed serious change; else the reputation of this school resumes going downhill. As soon as I am posted there, I decided to inquire information and feedbacks from the teachers and the other employees to get a grasp on what is going on in the school and what is the cause of the teachers’ low morale in this workplace and analyze the case. Apart from getting facts and figures of the status of the school, I also casually ask them on their opinions on how to improve the school so that I get the gist of what they want and needs to be changed. Based on this, I theorized that the low morale of the educators and the high levels of truancy that is occurring in this school can be connected to each other. Low morale of the educators seems to stem from the truancy of the students. Most of the teachers question themselves whether their hard work will bear any fruit as the students’ truancy cases became worse day by day. The teachers’ doubts then results in their morale decreasing which affects the teaching quality. From the students’ standpoint, it seems that their discipline is at a point of disarray caused by the low morale of the teachers. They made their own conclusion that the teachers are teaching them unwillingly (a simple misunderstanding) which caused them even less motivated to study; hence the increasing numbers of truancy cases. If this keeps up, the situation will get worse beyond repair. Thus, I must
CASE:
You have just been appointed as a principal in a local school located in a rural area. During the first week in the school, you realized that many of the teaching staffs are having low morale because of the problems with truancy and poor performance of the school. You intend to change this situation to enable the school to achieve a better level of performance and improve staff motivation.
In this case, it seems that I am placed as a principal in a rural school that needed serious change; else the reputation of this school resumes going downhill. As soon as I am posted there, I decided to inquire information and feedbacks from the teachers and the other employees to get a grasp on what is going on in the school and what is the cause of the teachers’ low morale in this workplace and analyze the case. Apart from getting facts and figures of the status of the school, I also casually ask them on their opinions on how to improve the school so that I get the gist of what they want and needs to be changed. Based on this, I theorized that the low morale of the educators and the high levels of truancy that is occurring in this school can be connected to each other. Low morale of the educators seems to stem from the truancy of the students. Most of the teachers question themselves whether their hard work will bear any fruit as the students’ truancy cases became worse day by day. The teachers’ doubts then results in their morale decreasing which affects the teaching quality. From the students’ standpoint, it seems that their discipline is at a point of disarray caused by the low morale of the teachers. They made their own conclusion that the teachers are teaching them unwillingly (a simple misunderstanding) which caused them even less motivated to study; hence the increasing numbers of truancy cases. If this keeps up, the situation will get worse beyond repair. Thus, I must