Abstract: The purpose of this research is to determine
teachers’ roles in improving students' self-adjustment and its
supporting factors at Ar-Risalah Islamic Junior High School,
Padang, Indonesia. This is qualitative descriptive research with
data collected from teachers, students, principals, and other
school officials through interview, observation, and
documentation. The data collected were analyzed using
reduction and triangulation processes. The result showed that
the teacher had expertise as a motivator to support and trigger
the student enthusiasm in adapting and learning new materials
at school. Meanwhile, the inhibiting factors of the self�adjustment process were parents that have not been able to let
their children go to boarding schools and teachers without
psychological backgrounds, because this background are
needed for better approach and intervention for children to
make them enthusiasm in learning in boarding school.