Mrs. Rasha Abdelwahab Khaleel Najjar

Educational Supervisor- Ministry of Education- Jordan

Abstract: The study aimed to explain job satisfaction and its impact on teachers’ performance. The study relied on the descriptive approach, the study sample consisted of (149) male and female teachers who were selected by random sampling method, and a tool was developed a questionnaire to collect data. The results of the study indicated that the average of job satisfaction among teachers in the Southern Al-Mazar was at a moderate level, its dimensions (material domain, spiritual domain) were at a moderate level, and domain of teachers’ performance received a high score. It was also shown that there were statistically significant differences about material domain of job satisfaction due to gender variable in favor of females, and the presence of differences between years of experience between spiritual domain and the performance of teachers in favor of the group of 11 years and over, and indicated that there are differences between academic qualification and job satisfaction in favor of a master’s degree and between academic qualification and teachers’ performance in favor of a doctoral degree. It was also found that spiritual domain in favor of the humanities specializations there were differences about teachers’ performance and spiritual domain due to specialization variable, there were statistically significant correlation between job satisfaction and teachers’ performance.

Keywords: Job Satisfaction, Teacher performance, Southern District of Al – Mazar, Jordan.