Fostering Teachers’ Motivation through Participatory Leadership: A Study of Secondary School Practices

This research is to explore the impact of participatory learning on teaching motivation in secondary schools in Kotli, AJ&K. Aiming at this target, the researchers got the information from 120 secondary school teachers from both government and private schools through a questionnaire, the sampling considered being random. The researchers did a Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Software (SPSS) analysis of survey data collected from teachers. This research used the descriptive statistics method. Moreover, the researchers obtained the mean and standard deviation for each item. Contrary to that, the results of this study show that the levels of participatory leadership and teacher motivation are very high, as the mean scores are always above 4.0, indicating that teachers were in strong agreement with collaborative leadership practices. The Pearson correlation revealed that participatory leadership and teacher motivation are strongly positively correlated and the connection is significant. It is, therefore, the suggestion of this paper that participatory leadership is key in the facilitation of teacher motivation as well as a conducive and collaborative school environment. The research illustrates the significance of leadership that is both autonomous and inclusive in teacher engagement and motivation in the educational institutions.