Teachers’ Job Satisfaction and Retention in Catholic Schools

This sequential explanatory research design used survey questionnaire and informal interview methods to gather data from the participants. A total of 160 high school teachers responded to the survey questionnaire. Frequencies and percentages are used to treat the quantitative data. A total of 17 participated in the informal interviews. The Colaizzi method was applied to analyze the qualitative data. Thematic analysis was used to treat data gathered from informal interviews. Findings revealed that high school teachers in Catholic schools are highly satisfied in all areas namely: Nature of Work, Instructional Supervision, School Administration, Salary, Fringe Benefits, and Working Conditions, Professional Relations, and School Policy. The reasons why the high school teachers are satisfied and choose to stay in their respective Catholic schools are: love of profession, intensive coaching and mentoring, support from administration, benefits reciprocate salary, support from colleagues, and establishment of democratic and participatory learning environment. The output of this study provides an avenue for the Catholic schools to enhance, sustain, or even re-define their existing human resource policies. The policy recommendations crafted by the researcher was validated by a pool of experts and was Highly Valid. It can therefore be adopted by the Catholic schools’ Board of Trustees for implementation.