GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The study investigated teachers’ motivational strategies and academic performance of Social Studies students in Junior secondary schools in South Africa. The population of this study consisted of stake holders, principals, vice principals, teachers and students in South Africa. The study adopted Ex-post facto research design while simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents. Data was obtained using an instrument for data collection tagged “Teachers Motivational Strategies Questionnaire, (TMSQ)”. Data obtained from respondents was analysed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) while Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. It was observed that there is significant relationship between teachers’ offer of incentives to students and their academic performance in social studies in South Africa. It was also observed that there is significant relationship between teachers’ provision of timely feedback to students and their academic performance in social studies in South Africa. Among other recommendations it was recommended that teachers should always encourage their student by way of introducing motivating factors such as awards and gifts to the best performing student in the class.