Relation between the school climate and teacher performance in secondary schools

Every school needs to establish an appropriate and positive organizational culture in order tobe able to provide an effective education and training. Education institutions differ from otherschools with their organizational culture and identity. Although every school possessesunique cultural and organizational structure, they sometimes manifest resemblances withother schools. It is an undeniable fact that the formation of organizational culture of a schooland their adoption by the administration and teachers would help boosting the success of thatschool and positively forming the teacher performance.This study tackles the relation between the school climate in secondary schools and theteacher performance, and it analyzes the perception level of this relation by students. Thestudy was conducted by employing the relational scanning model. In the theoretical section,information was provided by the in-depth analysis of the relevant concepts and literature, and5-point Likert?s scale was utilized in the application section.The study universe consisted of 325 students attending secondary schools other thanvocational schools on the Asian side of Istanbul. The data were analyzed in computerenvironment and by using SPSS statistical software. For the statistical analyses of data, theutilized tests were frequency and percentages, averages, standard deviation, IndependentGroup t-test, Unilateral Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Scheffe, LSD, Kruskal-Vallis H test,Mann-Whitney U test, and Pearson?s correlation. And the significance level was taken as 0.05.Based on the study results, gender, age group, class, school type, family income level,opportunities of school, and the education field posed a statistical difference in responses tothe survey with 71 items on school climate and the one with 23 items on the teacherperformance.Thus, it was concluded that school climate substantially affects the teacher performances insecondary schools.