Abstract

• The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between teacher transformational leadership and student motivation at Education Colleges in Sagaing Region. In this paper, qualitative and quantitative research designs were used. Some students from Sagaing Education College and Monwya Education College participated in this study. They were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Two research instruments were employed to collect the required data. They are Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5x Short) by Bass and Avolio (1995) to measure teacher transformational leadership and Academic Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation Questionnaire (AIEMQ) by Regina (2008) to measure student motivation. There are five dimensions for transformational leadership: idealized influence (attributed), idealized influence (behaviour), intellectual simulation, inspirational motivation and individualized consideration, and two dimensions for motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The findings of the study indicated that the second year college students from Education Colleges in Sagaing Region asserted that the teachers often practiced all dimensions of transformational leadership to lead their students and the student motivation fell into the range of high level. In this study, correlational analysis showed that it was a positive significant relationship between teacher transformational leadership and student motivation (r .670, p.01). Through the research results, teachers will be able to gain some valuable ideas about the transformation all eadership that can help to promote the student motivation in everyday classroom practices.