GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

This study was to assess the level of motivation and influence of gender on music teachers in secondary schools in south-south Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive design method. This study was undertaken in the South-South geopolitical zone. The population of the study consisted of all the music teachers in public post primary schools in the four states in South-South Nigeria. The sampling technique was used in selecting 150 music teachers from Urban and Rural settings in the four states in South-South Nigeria. The main instrument for the study was a questionnaire titled “The Level of Motivation and Influence of Gender on Music Teachers in Secondary Schools Questionnaire (LMIGMTSSQ)”. Reliability of the instrument deals with the extent to which the result accruing from an instrument is stable and consistent. The researcher conducted the administration of the questionnaire to all the 150 music teachers selected for the study. Data gathered in the study through the use of questionnaire (LMIGMTSSQ), was analyzed with inferential statistics. The study concluded that music teachers in Junior Secondary Schools in South-South Nigeria have not been motivated enough for high performance to be achieved; motivation of music teachers has immense contributions to the level of their students’ performance in music in South-South Nigeria; gender of music teachers has significant influence on the level of their motivation and Junior Secondary School students’ performance in music in South-South Nigeria. While the study recommend that music teachers should be motivated regularly in different forms like study leave, career development, regular promotion, regular payment of salary, excess work load allowance and access to loans and accountability. With these motivational factors music teachers will perform immensely well such that the performance of students in music and other wise will be affected positively.

KEYWORD: Motivation, Gender, Music, Teachers South-South and Nigeria