Teacher Motivation: A Factor for Classroom Effectiveness and School Improvement

Abstract

Teachers are the most important factor in determining the quality of education that children receive. Teacher motivation could
therefore be referred to as those factors that operate within the school system which if not made available to the teacher could hamper
performance, cause stress, discontentment and frustration all of which would subsequently reduce classroom effectiveness and student
quality output. A great number of different changes which happen in Albanian society have direct influence in educational development
effecting principal actor, teachers. Motivation and demotivation are strongly connected with their performance.The purpose of this study
is to contribute on knowing the phenomenon of motivation and its importance in teachers and to find out if teacher motivation would
subsequently be translated to classroom effectiveness and school improvement.