Abstract
Improving the quality of education in Sulu is a great challenge for the local educators especially the top administrators of the DepEd-Sulu. The current state of quality education in the elementary and secondary level is very deplorable. The major factors affecting the quality education are the unstable peace and order condition, the lack of school facilities, poor supervision of the school operation, and the lack of incentives in terms of promotion, recognition, salary increase and other fringe benefits of among committed teachers. Giving proper incentives is the practical way to motivate the teachers to perform their tasks efficiently. Without it, teachers’ performance is always affected and quality education will come to naught. It is believed that teachers’ performance is an offshoot of job motivation which thereby promotes job satisfaction and effective performance. It is also clear that teachers’ performance is linked with the improvement of students’ performance. In Sulu, students’ performance is very poor as reflected in the outcome of the National Achievement Test (NAT) of the students.