Teachers serve as role models for their students, and their personalities, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and actions significantly impact their students success in life. This study aims to determine how students perceive their teachers personality traits and how these traits relate to the pupils learning motivation. The study involved 302 Grade 6 students from four selected elementary schools in the West II District of the Cagayan de Oro City School Division, and a quantitative research design was employed. The researcher created an instrument, which was established to be valid and reliable. The findings suggest that as teachers personality traits improve, their pupils learning motivation also improves. Highly motivated students perceive their teachers as more professional, and this motivates them to perform well in class. The study concludes that teachers professional traits, as perceived by pupils, including agreeableness, openness, extraversion, and conscientiousness, significantly contribute to pupils learning motivation throughout the teaching-learning process. The pupils insights into their teachers personality traits are highly attributable to their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Pupils are persuaded to work towards a goal when they feel that their efforts count and feel accomplished when they are involved in the teaching-learning process. Therefore, the study recommends that schools organize workshops to enhance teachers personality traits.

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