Empowerment Acts and Achievement Motivation: their Bearing on Schools' Performance in Sto. Tomas North District, Sto. Tomas, Batangas

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study is conducted to investigate the empowerment and the achievement motivation exercised by the school administrators in managing their schools. This is also an attempt to determine the schools’ performance and its relation to the empowerment acts and the achievement motivation exercised by respective school heads.

METHODS

Participants of this study were select teachers and administrators of Sto. Tomas North District. The researchers employed Descriptive Research Design. The researches distributed survey questionnaires to the participants.

RESULTS

The findings reveal that there is empowerment of administrators in terms of democratic supervision, collegiality and collaboration, professional development, ethical teaching, inquiry and reflective feedback, diversity of teachers and learners, clinical supervision, formative teacher evaluation, curriculum supervision, and teacheraction research.

DISCUSSIONS

The research focused on the teachers on Sto. Tomas North District. And there is a need for teachers to sustain and develop their competencies in all areas of teaching performance to attain high levels of proficiency. Based onthe findings of the study, an action plan is necessary to enrich administrators' empowerment act and achievement motivation practices.