The Relationship between Teacher’s Personality and Learners’ Motivation Raid Si Zoubir Secondary School as a Case Study in Tiaret

Abstract

The study attempts to examine the relationship between teachers’ personality and learners’ motivation as a descriptive case study design. Data used in this study are collected from teachers and pupils of Raid Si Zoubir High School. Nine different teachers were being observed by the researcher through filling an Observation Sheet measuring the five dimensions of personality which are: Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Extraversion, Openness and Neuroticism. Also, forty learners participated and were required to fill in a questionnaire which was given to them with the purpose of evaluating their relationships with most of their teachers. The results of this study provided strong arguments about the relationship between the two variables of this study and from this analysis clear conclusions were drawn. The results of this study show that teachers’ personality plays a crucial role in motivating students. The evidence suggests that the learners are affected by their teachers’ personality in many different ways. So, teachers must pay more attention to their behaviors and their relationships with their learners and to the way they treat them. The outcome of this study is an account of experiences and procedures that will guide the development and maintenance of relationships between a teacher and his/ her learners, more specifically the way the teachers’ personality affects his/ her learners’ motivation.