Teacher retention rates are currently at an all-time low, posing significant challenges to the stability and effectiveness of educational institutions. This paper aimed to address this pressing issue by identifying methods to enhance teacher job satisfaction specifically within the context of Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI)…

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in teacher turnover, which poses a notable challenge to improving the quality of education. Individual characteristics such as teacher motivation, self-efficacy, and job satisfaction have been linked to the tendency for turnover. However, the exact connections between these attributes remain…

One of the greatest contributors to a student's success in K-12 education is the effectiveness of their teachers and, consequently, teacher retention. Unfortunately, teacher turnover rates have increased substantially since 2015, with the majority of teachers leaving for reasons that do not include retirement. Teachers who are more satisfied with…

Unequal school funding is a phenomenon that promotes an educational structure where certain public schools receive higher financial support and resources while other schools receive lower levels. An important but overlooked dimension of the phenomenon is its potential effect on teacher job satisfaction in underfunded and well-funded schools. This…

This paper utilizes a comparative case study approach to explore the teacher job satisfaction (TJS) status of rural and urban teachers and the underlying factors that influence their TJS in central China by utilizing semi-structured interviews. Our participants include 30 rural and 14 urban public primary school teachers. We found that both rural…

The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship among school conditions, teacher job satisfaction, intention to stay, and school type (charter versus traditional public schools) and to determine if school conditions, and thereby job satisfaction, influences teachers' intention to stay in the field. Understanding this is critical to…

This study examines the complex dynamics of teacher retention within Catholic schools, seeking to understand the motivations, factors and alignment of reasons provided by teachers for their decision to stay or leave their positions. Utilizing Sher's Theoretical Framework (1983) as its guiding principle, the study examines the factors that motivate…

This paper explores ten Vietnamese female dance teachers' experiences, motivations to become dance teachers, and the professional challenges they encountered as they pursued dance teaching in the Vietnamese context. The findings reveal the dance teaching career was a way for the participants to maintain their passion in dance and bring them job…

This study's purpose was to investigate teacher retention at Central Elementary School by identifying, studying, and considering the reasons connected to teacher perceptions and attitudes as it relates to job (dis)satisfaction since turnover rates can be the deciding factor. The evidence collected in this study may profit educators in the near…

The concept of professional learning communities (PLCs) has received considerable attention in research as well as in school practice since the late 1990s. PLCs have been positively associated with a variety of outcomes for both teachers and students, but differences in the way the concept is operationalised, and the fact that most of the research…

As the teaching profession becomes more demanding and teachers' work conditions become increasingly challenging, recent reports have shown declining levels of teacher well-being. Past studies on teacher well-being mostly focused its associations with teacher- and school-related outcomes. However, less research has been conducted on the…

This quantitative correlational study explored the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic job factors and overall teacher job satisfaction, focusing on their impact on teacher retention in four California charter schools. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between various intrinsic,…

The psychological well-being of teachers is essential in education, as it directly impacts teaching effectiveness and student outcomes. Recently, emotional blackmail has emerged as a critical concern for both physical and mental health, yet empirical studies on this topic, particularly among teachers, remain limited. Teaching is a profession…

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a moderation effect between perceptions of school-level autonomy and teacher race/ethnicity on job satisfaction using the National Teacher and Principal Survey. The participants included 25,360 teachers from 5140 public schools representing a weighted sample of 2.35 million teachers.…

There is growing concern that casual academics operate in an environment characterised by precarity and inequality which has implications for motivation and well-being. This study examines how various factors support or inhibit casual accounting academics' motivation and well-being in Australian universities. Using Herzberg's two-factor theory and…