Teacher performance is something that needs and deserves to be examined in depth. Many factors cause problems related to teacher performance. This article will discuss the influence of time ...management and teacher commitment on teacher performance at junior high schools in Tualang District, Siak Regency. This research uses a quantitative-descriptive approach. This quantitative descriptive research systematically, actually, and accurately describes certain social phenomena, with the aim of describing in detail the existing facts and data. Data collection techniques use observation, documentation, and questionnaires. The subjects of the research were 107 teachers in public middle schools in Tualang District, Siak Regency. The research results show that 1) time management has a significant positive influence on teacher performance, with a significance value of 0.000 or less than an alpha value of 0.05. 2) Teacher commitment has a significant positive influence on teacher performance, with a significance value of 0.000. 3) Time management and teacher commitment jointly influence teacher performance, with a significance value of 0.000 and an R-Square value of 0.569, indicating that the proportion of influence of time management variables and teacher commitment on teacher performance variables is 56.9%.
In the field of language-education psychology, the psychology of educators was not at the center of attention to some extent, despite the immense attention given to the psychology of students. ...Recently, positive psychology has become very important as it puts more emphasis on the constructive dimensions of life and it regards individual well-being as a major problem for individuals' achievement. Since the core of an instructing institution is the educators, their well-being must be prioritized in the academic circumstances to both improve students' skills and to motivate and inspire participation and involvement in the class. Moreover, teacher engagement is viewed as another significant factor in this realm that refers to people's outlook toward their job, impacting their emotional attendance and engagement during their presentation. Also, there is an inner force that pushes educators to put more time and strength in maintaining participation in the school that is called educator commitment that is determined on evolving the school builds an emotive connection between educators and schools. It eventually encourages educators to improve their instructing careers and find ways to create a successful educational setting that would enable learners to attain their goals. In addition, teacher self-efficacy, including educators' convictions in their skill to successfully manage assignments, responsibilities, and difficulties associated with their expert activity, has an important function in affecting key scholastic results in the career setting. By taking the aforementioned constructs, this review of literature provides implications for academics, teachers, and policymakers in search of better considering the functions of commitment and self-efficacy on their work engagement and well-being.
Teachers' emotional states such as optimism and commitment have long been approved influential in second/foreign language education. Although many correlational investigations have been conducted on ...teacher optimism and commitment, their interaction and kinship with teachers' work engagement have been largely ignored in the literature. Considering this situation, the present mini-review aims to present the theoretical underpinnings, definitions, dimensions, and conceptualizations of these three important variables taken from positive psychology. Moreover, the present review can offer a number of practical implications for EFL teachers, teacher educators, program designers, school principals, and L2 researchers, and raise their awareness of the impact of inner emotions on teachers' academic performance. Finally, research gaps and future directions are provided for eager researchers to run similar and complementary studies in EFL contexts.
This study examines how teachers' autonomy and learning affect their commitment, considering the moderating role of work environment. Questionnaires were administered to full-time teachers in basic ...schools within Ghana's Ashanti Region, which yielded 1163 accurate responses. The study employs the structural equation modeling technique to generate accurate and reliable findings. The findings reveal that teachers' autonomy and learning positively and significantly contribute to their commitment. Also, work environment positively and substantially moderates the relationship between teachers' autonomy and commitment and between teachers' learning and commitment. Finally, theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
•Teachers' autonomy positively predicted teachers' commitment.•Teachers' learning positively impacted teachers' organizational commitment.•Work environment, together with teachers' autonomy, positively influenced teachers' commitment.•Work environment, together with teachers' learning, positively affected teachers' commitment.
Emotional labor plays an essential role in school leadership and teaching, as principals and teachers undergo complex interactions with students, colleagues, and parents. Although researchers have ...realized the influence of leaders' behaviors on followers' emotions in management and educational contexts, the relationship between leadership behaviors, teachers' emotional labor, and related organizational outcomes has been underexplored. As leadership and emotional labor are situated and influenced by cultural contexts, the current study focused on the relationship between teachers' emotional labor strategies, multidimensional teacher commitment, and paternalistic leadership, a unique leadership type rooted in Confucianism. Paternalistic leadership is a style that combines strong authority with fatherly benevolence, which is prevalent in East Asia and the Middle East. A sample of 419 teachers was randomly selected to participate in a survey. The results showed that principals' authoritarian leadership behaviors had negative influences on teachers' commitment to the profession and commitment to the school. Benevolent leadership had positive effects on teachers' commitment to students, commitment to the profession, and commitment to the school. Teachers' deep acting played positive mediating effects, while surface acting was a negative mediator. The results imply that school leaders could properly exert parent-like leadership practices to facilitate teacher commitment through managing teachers' emotions.
The negative impact of student-to-teacher victimization on teachers' perceptions of the work environment and their well-being is supported by growing empirical literature. For instance, violence in ...the classroom can have a negative impact on teachers themselves and hinder teachers from playing crucial roles in students' classroom experiences, resulting in adverse effects on student performance. However, the research field is limited in understanding the adverse effects on teachers' perceptions more directly related to student learning, such as teacher neglect. To fill the gap in the literature, the current study analyzes data from a nationwide sample of 1,054 middle and high school teachers in South Korea where teachers are generally treated with high regard and social status, often exerting a strong influence and authority over students in both an educational and parental way. Specifically, we conduct propensity score matching to investigate potential influences that student-to-teacher victimization can have on the following three outcome variables: teacher neglect, commitment, and pride. Results of mean comparisons after accounting for other confounding factors show that when compared with nonvictims, victims of student-to-teacher victimization are more likely to neglect their students; these victims also tend to exhibit less pride as teachers. Yet, the results also showed no significant statistical difference in teacher commitment. The current findings highlight the importance of developing programs to prevent and intervene in students' aggressive behaviors toward teachers. Particularly, administrators are recommended to consider providing training for teachers, specific to understanding student-to-teacher victimization in order to promote a more positive school environment and better student-to-teacher relationships in classrooms, including improving teachers' job performance.
Following social cognitive theory, this study examined the longitudinal relationships between kindergarten teachers' psychological well-being, self-efficacy, and commitment to children via a two-wave ...longitudinal design. Based on a sample of 782 Hong Kong kindergarten teachers, the results of the half-longitudinal mediation analysis showed that teachers’ psychological well-being enhanced their commitment to children through the mediation of self-efficacy over time. However, longitudinal reverse mediation and reciprocal relationships were not confirmed. These results support the significance of supplementing social cognitive theory with positive psychology and adopting longitudinal research to detect the direction of prediction of self-efficacy. The practical implications are finally discussed.
This study examines the relationship between affective, normative, and continuance commitment of teachers to their profession and their organization, and turnover intentions. Hong Kong teachers ...(N = 1060) from religious and non-religious, English medium and Chinese medium of instruction, and band 1 and band 2 schools participated. Teachers from religious schools were higher in affective commitment to organization while teachers from non-religious schools were higher in normative commitment to profession. Teachers from EMI and band 1 schools were higher in affective and normative commitments while teachers from CMI and band 2 schools were higher in turnover intentions.
•Teachers from religious schools higher on affective commitment to organization.•Teachers from non-religious schools higher on normative commitment to profession.•Teachers from EMI and band 1 schools higher on affective and normative commitments.•Teachers from CMI and band 2 schools higher on turnover intentions.
This study tested a moderated mediation model of transformational leadership’s effects on teacher innovative practices, with teacher commitment as mediator and trust in principal as moderator. ...Implementing a cross-sectional survey design and using data from 611 teachers working in 56 schools in Turkey, we employed multilevel structural equation modelling with Bayesian estimation to estimate the structural links between our variables. The results provided evidence of the indirect effects of transformational leadership on teacher innovative practices through the significant mediator role of teacher commitment. We also found evidence that trust in principal acted as a significant moderator of the indirect effect of transformational leadership on teacher innovative practice through teacher commitment. This study adds nuanced evidence to the global literature by concluding that the effect of transformational leadership on teacher commitment and innovative practice is contingent upon the extent to which teachers trust their principals. We conclude with key implications for policy and practice.
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