The Relationship between The Job Characteristics of the Teaching Profession and School Effectiveness

Abstract

When teachers' autonomy, roles and responsibilities, the importance given to the teaching profession, teacher competencies and the feedback provided to the teacher are increased, it will contribute to school effectiveness. However, when one of the job characteristics of the teaching profession is insufficient, it is seen that schools become ineffective. In this context, the purpose of this study is to find out the relationship between the job characteristics of the teaching profession and school effectiveness according to the opinions of teachers working at primary and secondary schools. The participants of the study were 376 teachers and the School Effectiveness Scale and the Teaching Profession Job Characteristics Scale were used. The perceptions of the teachers showed that there is strong relation between the job characteristics of teaching profession and school effectiveness.

Keywords

• School effectiveness
• job characteristics
• teaching autonomy

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