Teacher motivation is a topic that has not taken so much priority because today teachers are though as ethically required to be so without explicit reference. However, teachers are not motivated. Classic promts by school supervisors such as building better lesson plans help but because they are short-timeframe have limited impact One idea is to have teachers co-create curricula, these being less rigid, so that they are motivated to achieve aspects of school vision, having more accountability but also more room for autonomy towards this.
Is a very interesting question. In fact, the question, as was asked contains the answer. The area of teacher motivation has been linked only to short-range (lesson planning) but this is a mistake, it should indeed include not only medium-term (curiculum design for school vision) but also long term: the effect of teachings in the lives of students. You are right ans we really hope somebody takes that into consideration soon and do the proper thing.
Teachers cannot act directly on long-term objectives, they can act only in the process of formation of values as part of the general objectives of a university career or of training at other levels of education. The motivation is the class because the way in which the managers use to evaluate the teacher, that is to say the system is designed to evaluate the teachers in the class and not through the graduates. It seems to me that the problem is in the evaluation, if the way of evaluating teachers were changed everything would be different. The idea that teachers participate in the creation of the curriculum is very good, although in Cuba teachers participate in all levels of generation of curriculum content, the responsibility lies with the institution. I think that teachers should be more involved from the creation of a system of evaluation for results, here the strategies of teaching years are developed where students and teachers are directly responsible for the results.
Participation is a key factor for motivation. Working with interests is a way of identifying sources of motivation.
Is a very interesting question. In fact, the question, as was asked contains the answer. The area of teacher motivation has been linked only to short-range (lesson planning) but this is a mistake, it should indeed include not only medium-term (curiculum design for school vision) but also long term: the effect of teachings in the lives of students. You are right ans we really hope somebody takes that into consideration soon and do the proper thing.
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