Effects of Teachers’ Instructional Practices on Students’ Motivation at the Secondary Level in Lahore City

Abstract

Now a day the education meets the quality standard at higher education level. The teachers teaching strategies and instructional methods enhances the teaching learning process. The need of student’s performance at secondary and higher secondary is very important. The secondary school level students’ performance at their academic learning stage with high level of motivational techniques. The present study was aimed to investigate the instructional practices that the teacher used at secondary level to motivate the student. The objectives of the current study were to; investigate the practices that the teacher’s used for secondary level, find students motivation level at secondary stage, find the relationship between instructional practices and students motivation level, compare students' learning motivation based on demographic variables (gender, grade level). The target population was the all secondary school that was located in WAPDA town. The accessible population was only four secondary school were selected for the study. Through simple random sampling technique, the 120 teachers were selected for the study. The self-developed questionnaire that was based on demographic information and keep consider the factors that was derived from literature was used to collect the data, it contains two parts for one teachers and one for students. The data was collected by herself and it was analyzed through inferential and descriptive statics. The results show that the teacher’s instructional practices has strong effects on student motivation level. Teachers should use different teaching strategies to enhance the learning. For the secondary level teachers should use more interactive strategies to motivate students at higher level.