Teachers' Motivation - Perceptions on the Reasons of Participation in School Activities

The employees' motivation leads to better results in reaching the objectives proposed. What is going on within the Romanian schools? How motivated do teachers in good schools consider themselves? How about those in less effective schools? What motives animate them to participate in school activities? The research realized analyzes the perception of over 600 teachers concerning their own motivation, in order to identify the main reasons lying at the basis of an active participation to school life. Our concern is about this because motivated teacher means a well-trained student. The complexity of motivation reflects the importance of this, especially related to teachers. The professionalism of teachers has the result of a high level of quality of education provided to the students. So, the importance of motivation is related directly with the children's education. Also, the children's outcomes are directly influenced by the teacher's motivation, according with Sugata Mitra's experiments. The findings reflect the reality from Romanian schools. This reality has to be known by the decision makers in order to take the right, the most adequate measures both at the local and national level. It is very important to find out the coordinates for infrinsic motivation and for all mechanism that are involved in fostering this kind of motivation. It is demanding for an effective system of education to access and to develop teacher's infrinsic motivation. In a knowledge-based economy, with a dynamic growth of information it is appropriate to have well-formed and developed students to be able to be integrated on the labor market. This is the reason why for principals it is essential to be careful to notice and to foster teacher's motivation, especially the infrinsic one. This teacher's wellbeing is crucial for student's developing because it is a direct correlation, a logical connection between teachers' competences and the students' learning.