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1.The majority of a child’s young years are spent in the classroom environment. Therefore, having the right interventions put in place will assist in the learning process of learners. Many other aspects such as the way a school is run, the attitudes of educators and learners set the tone for the teaching and learning in the classroom environment. It is vitally important that a school has a strong positive leader to be a role model and motivate the school to reach for the stars and achieve many academic goals. If the leader is able to motivate the school and put in effective plans for the school, it will allow for growth of educators and learners and make them want to do better. The following essay will consist of a critical analysis of a case study of which I will point out circumstances and issues that the school has as well as how it effects the duties of educators, management and learners also I will discuss its contribution to poor culture of teaching and learning. I will then move to discuss 3 theoretic concepts relating to the case study. A critical discussion of an action plan which the principal will take to improve the culture of teaching and learning will then unfold. Lastly, a justification of my ideas will be discussed with links of the action plan and theories learned. 2.The school is seen as an organisation, which is a collection of many people, such as school management, the principal, educators, and learners who work together as a collection to achieve variety of goals and creates a positive culture for teaching and learning to take place. If this collection of people does not work together, many circumstances and issues may arise, and this will impact the culture of teaching and learning in a negative manner. It will also have a negative effect on the way the school is run and duties of teachers and learners making it hard for them to achieve a variety of goals. Looking at the case study there are a number of circumstances which are affecting the culture of the school. • Firstly, 40% of the staff are senior educators who have been in the school for many years, they are of a much older age. We ask ourselves, is age just a number when it comes to the teaching environment and is experience all that matters. When looking at the 21st century many schools are moving towards incorporating technology with their teachings in urban areas. Older teachers will tend to find difficulty in this integration of teaching as a result they will only stick to their method of teaching which they use to. When looking at older teachers and their physical fitness, this takes a tall on them as they are unable to go the extra mile in pushing learners to achieve goals as they get tired very easily (The impact of teachers age in a school environment 2014:08). In relation to technology older teachers will not have the patience or time to learn how to incorporate technology in their lessons which will have a negative effect on the teaching and learning taking place, as by having videos and pictures in a lesson it will benefit the child and help them understand the concept being taught. Also, many schools require report cards to be done using a computer by the older teachers not knowing how to use it this will affect their duties of completing report cards on time. • The second issue is that majority of the staff (60%) which are not qualified or has very little or no teaching experience. This threatens the quality of education which is being taught to learners in result disadvantaging learners. If the teachers are not qualified this means that they do not have the knowledge nor do, they have skills to teach. This affects the duties of the educator as they are unable to give learners the full knowledge, they require in understanding concepts being taught and this will result in learners obtaining low marks or unable to obtain any marks. This in result has a negative contribution to the culture of teaching and learning as teachers are not skilled and do not have sufficient knowledge on unpacking work, they will struggle to put strategies in place to assist learners with further understanding of a specific content being taught. • The third issue being result 60% of learners attained below average in learning areas while there was a huge number of learners who did not achieve anything. There are many factors which contribute to this namely the attitudes of learners, the quality of education they are receiving as well as the educators involvement, if the learner does not have a positive attitude to their learning and does not play their part in conducting further research and extra learning for better understanding which they require to complete tests and examinations it will affect the child’s results .If the quality of education is not up to standard , meaning the selection of content to be taught and placing more emphasis on some content is not established by the managers of the school, learners will not be fully prepared for tests and exams in result they will not produce good marks also if there is unqualified teachers they will not have sufficient training to teach learners. The involvement of educators, if they do not motivate their learners and encourage them, learners will not believe in themselves and in result will not believe they can do well in tests. These factors contribute to the culture of teaching and learning as none of the collection of people are motivated, have the drive to go further in expanding knowledge and result in teaching being mediocre. • Fourthly teachers are teaching directly from the prescribed textbooks and learning is aided by chalk-talk only. Basically, the teachers are only using specific textbooks relating to each subject and using the chalk board to write down what’s taught of the lesson. This is an older method of teaching. In relation to the 21st century this method of teaching limits learners is the culture of teaching and learning, as there are different personalities in the classroom setting and learners learn differently, some prefer being hands-on while others are auditory learners. By sticking to only one teaching method, these hinders the learning of others being taught. The situation has a great effect on the learners as their learning is limited and there are not enough strategies put in place by educators to contribute and accommodate the learning needs of others. • Finally, the older teachers are unwilling to change their teaching style, resulting in the younger teachers following them. This issue is a series matter as it shows that there is no room for change of teaching styles and that management is failing to set up meetings to brainstorm new styles and strategies of teaching. The situation affects specific needs of learners and the different ways they learn this affect contributes to the culture of learning and teaching. As a result, if the styles are not changed it will make it extremely difficult for learners to understand the content of work being taught to them resulting in them not attaining sufficient knowledge and understanding of a specific topic being taught. Therefore, if a school faces circumstances, it is those circumstances that will have a negative impact on the school’s achievements, the teaching strategies and the manner in which learners learn. The organisation of a school is dependent on the people involved in the setting. It is the manager and leaders’ job to have the necessary skills to direct actions of people to be aware of the school’s objectives. The manager-leader need to be very careful when implementing the needed skills, because the manner in which they carry it out can either have a negative or positive proclamation on the people within the organisation. Motivation consists of 3 key elements namely intensity, which is how hard a person tries, direction which is quality of effort and persistence how long the individual is able to maintain the effort (Thatcher 2019:4). Motivation is a process which the manager-leader has to take into consideration, they have to think about the needs of educators and learners , a driving force which will motivate them to achieve a goal, recognition of their behaviour such as their efforts made , look at the consequences that will come out of this process, the satisfaction or dissatisfaction in relation to unqualified educators the aim is to obtain their qualification and lastly the manager-leader needs to provide feedback to assist with staff knowing if they were unsuccessful and they will want to work harder. 3.To instil the motivation process, we incorporate it with theories related to motivation so that not only is the staff willing to do better but also the learners resulting in a positive culture for teaching and learning to take place and goals to be achieved. • The first theoretical concept that can be used on these circumstances are Hertzberg’s two-factor theory of motivation as it focuses on what motivates people and their job satisfaction. The theory states that, peoples job satisfaction is dependent on two kinds of factors these factors are, factors for satisfaction (motivation) and factors for dissatisfaction (hygiene factors) (Two factor theory by Frederick Herzberg 2013:03). Motivators comprise of job status, one’s performance and responsibilities, recognition at school and opportunities for growth. The relationship with colleagues, salary, physical work environment and the relationship between the principal and staff fall under hygiene factors. Job dissatisfaction are influence by hygiene factors and job satisfactions are influenced by motivation factors by improving motivation factors this increases job satisfaction and improving hygiene factors decreases job dissatisfaction. The school environment has 4 different combinations which exists, namely, high hygiene and motivation, this is the perfect setting with staff being highly motivated, then you get high hygiene and low motivation staff is not motivated and see their job as a pay check. Thirdly you get low hygiene and high motivation staff is motivated but have complaints about working conditions. The last one is low hygiene and motivation which is what the school in the case study is going through staff is not motivated and complain about changing their style of teaching resulting in them not achieving any goal. A change in the motivation factors has a long-lasting effect on the staff’s performance. In order to take away dissatisfaction it is important to find the factors that contribute to it when looking at the case study, this could be due to the unwillingness to change teaching styles and having