Improving the Job Performance of Secondary School Teachers in the Asir Region in Light of the Competency-Based Approach

Abstract

The research aims to reveal the degree of availability of functional competencies of all types (technical, behavior to achieve this, the research used the descriptive survey method along with the questionnaire as a tool for collecting data. The study population included all secondary school principals in the Asir educational region. The study reached several results, the most important of which is that the degree of availability of job competencies among teachers in the secondary stage in the Asir region is high.al, leadership, and productivity) among secondary school teachers in the Asir region, and to reveal the obstacles that prevent the availability of these competencies among secondary school teachers in the Asir region, The most prominent obstacles that prevent the availability of functional competencies of all kinds (technical, behavioral, leadership, and productivity) among secondary school teachers in the Asir region are (weak financial incentives provided to teachers in order to motivate them to acquire functional competencies, and the scarcity of training courses in the field of functional competencies),The study concluded with a set of principles and mechanisms, the most important of which are: that attention to developing the functional competencies of secondary school teachers has become a necessity for any school seeking to raise the level of its students, the establishment of a center for developing the functional competencies of teachers in the General Directorate of Education, and making the functional competencies of teachers a main criterion in their selection and appointment.