And schools need to communicate the importance of that relationship to
students and families. The third component of safety centre on academic
safety: Teachers inside their classrooms are advocates for student
learning and are charged with providing students with the academic tools
for success. Student must feel safe taking risk, asking questions and
tackling academic safety can come in the form of working with a student
at recess, before or
after school, or clarifying a question over
email in a tone and manner that leaves the student falling inspired and
heard, Also teachers can send the message that the struggle of learning
is a key part of growth and progress so that students are prepared to
work heard, put for the effort and persevere through challenges, all of
which ensures academic safety.
Communications
Communication
is very essential in any organization especially in school. According
to riches (1994) say that it is an activity which takes place when a
message is transferred satisfactorily from one partly to another. Ajayi
(1986) say that “communication function is the mean by which organized
activity is unified in organization†When a decision is made in a
school, it must be communicated to all its sub-system affected by it.
When communication is accurate, through and timely the organization can
move effective toward goal achievement. in this contest, it it is the
act of passing information from the principal to teacher either by
verbal or non verbal means.
Motivation
Motivation is a very important tool for improving Performance in the school system. In otherworld, performance is assumed to be a function or product of motivation and ability. According to Hoy and misked (1987) motivation as the complex forces, drives, needs, tension state or other mechanism that start and maintain voluntary activity directed toward the achievement of personal goals various theories of motivation have been postulated by some theories. According to Nwaobasi (1990) believe that there are two factor which may affected a worker on the job. one of such factor is concerned with the content of the job it self. A teacher may develop positive feeling or is motivated toward his job when there is opportunity for advancement his contribution are recognize or he is given some responsibilities in which he can initiate and implement decision. On the other hand, Maslow proposes that people on the job, including teacher have a hierarchy of needs. The needs are satisfied through a casually process of motivation while the importance and fulfillment of worker need are in a continuous change, they have also been shown to differ according to the nature of work performed, age and cultural background. Akinola (1986) in
his research work done in the department of psychology university of Ibadan, and similar others at the universities in the united states of America show that productivity of workers tend to increase when there are given feedback on how well they are performing relative to the set targets. Workers who have clear goals and who were given occasional feedback on their performance have the highest productivity than those who have no clear goals or those
Who have clear goals but no feedback? In the school system we want to ensure that each Person from the principal to the gateman is making his maximum contributions to ensure the goals of the school system are attained. This obviously means that each person must be motivated to put forth his best effort. Motivation can come inform of monetary or Non-monetary inducements, inducement comprises of such material benefits include salaries, house, transport, leave bonus allowances, inducement are usually either greater than or commensurate with the employees contributions.
Measures of Teachers Job Performance
Administrators should be sensitive to human factor, the teacher factor on performance was highlighter in the work of silber (1981) quoted by Bello G.O No matter what curriculum is used, what degree of sophisticated equipment or amount of teaching aids available, what conducive conditions under which the children are being tangle, the one Over-riding factor for successful students “performance is the teachers†In school where the teachers students and principals participate in the determination of the school rules and regulations with this moral is always promoted, it is also a way by which the creative talents of many teachers can be tapped. The performance of students academic task has always been of special interest to educators. The parents use performance of their children in public examination to pass judgment on the schools and teachers. Sogbeying (2002) noted that the
students performance in recent times give cause of alarm and school authorities more than the students themselves are being accused of lack of dedication, declining productivity and even mindlessness. Ogundele (2010) said that teacher’s job performance could be measured in term of school achievement, dedication effectiveness teaching measuring.
Appraisal of Literature Review
The literature review has established the fact that human factor is one of the major determinants of performance in any organization in the school among other factors, the principals administrative style and leadership by subordinates and learning processes in the school. The teacher has been identified as the one over-riding factor for successful student performances. it has been discussed that teachers will be willing to perform if they are involved in the policy formulation and decision making processes. Leadership styles of the principals has been identified as a major determination of teachers productivity. A few leadership theories were discussed. There is however paucity of studies on students achievement as is influenced by principal-teacher relationship.
