Factors Affecting Teachers' Excellence from the Perspective of Queen Rania Award -Winning Teachers: (A Jordanian Case)
The study aimed at investigating factors affecting teachers' excellence from the perspective of Queen Rania award -winning teachers as a Jordanian case. Recently, Jordan is committed to educational reform with a comprehensive plan called Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy (ERfKE). The study tries to answer questions about the most influential factors of educational excellence according to teachers' gender, level of education, and years of experience. In order to answer the study questions, a questionnaire was developed by the researchers as a major tool for collecting the data needed, so as to evaluate the teachers' perception of factors of excellence. Data is analyzed using descriptive statistics. ANOVA is used to determine the factors that affect teachers' excellence due to the study variables. The findings indicated that teachers' most important factors are related to Queen Rania Award criteria. The results show that the highest item mean in this domain was “Queen Rania award for educational excellence is considered to be a good motivation for teachers' performance”. There were no significant differences between teachers on the domain of Queen Rania Award criteria due to their gender, level of education and years of experience. Results show that gender, level of education and years of experience are not significant. In the lights of the findings, the study recommends more care of QRA criteria, and the need to study more factors which may influence teachers' excellence. Keywords: Teaching excellence, Jordan, Queen Rania Award