Identification of the Problems Faced by Secondary School Teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan

The purpose of this research work was to identify the problems faced by secondary school teachers. All the male and female secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) constituted the population of the study. The sample for this study was made up of 120 female and 160 male secondary school teachers which were selected through simple random sampling technique. The study was descriptive type and a self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection. Data was collected through personal visits. Then it was organized, tabulated and analyzed. Statisitcal tools i.e., the percentage, means, standard deviation and differences of means were computed for each male and female SSTs. Significance of difference between the mean opinions of both the male and females SSTs were tested at 0.05 level by applying t-test. After statistical analysis of the data, it was concluded that there are various problems which negatively affect the performance of secondary school teachers. These problems are: unattractive pay package; lack of basic facilities; overcrowded classes; students’ disruptive behaviours; financial crises of teachers;