Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. in psychology. Professor of the Department of Psychology. Farhangian University. Tehran, Iran

2 دکتری روان‌شناسی تربیتی.استاد مدعو دانشگاه فرهنگیان .تهران.ایران

3 PhD in Curriculum Planning, Allameh Tabatabai University. Head of Research Activities Department, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The current research was conducted with the aim of identifying effective factors and obstacles to teachers' professional performance. The method of qualitative research is narrative writing. The statistical population of the research includes all the teachers who graduated from the field of elementary education from 1995 to 1998 in the Farhangian University of Iran. The size of the studied sample was 120 people who had a diploma and were selected by cluster random method. The sample subjects answered the semi-structured interview online.. The analysis was done by thematic analysis. Results: The effective factors in the teacher's professional performance are: structural dimension: disregard for the dignity and position of the teacher, defects of the educational system, large volume of textbooks, large number of students in the class, the challenge of grading system, organizational dimension: lack of facilities in Schools, school atmosphere, non-cooperation of parents, special conditions of education in the era of Corona, economic dimension: concern about financial issues, individual dimension: lack of teacher's motivation.Obstacle,s factors in the teacher's professional performance are: structural dimension: disregard for the dignity and position of the teacher, defects of the educational system, large volume of textbooks, large number of students in the class, the challenge of grading system, organizational dimension: lack of facilities in Schools, school atmosphere, non-cooperation of parents, special conditions of education in the era of Corona, economic dimension: concern about financial issues, individual dimension: lack of teacher's motivation.

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