Influence of Heads of Schools’ Leadership Practices on Teachers Job Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Kigoma District Council, Tanzania (Published)
The study assesed the influence of heads of schools’ leadership practices on teachers’ job performances in public secondary schools, Kigoma Distinct Council-Tanzania. The study adopted a Convergent Research Design under a Mixed Research Approach. This study was guided by the Path Goal Theory as advocated by Robert House and Desseler. To this end, the study focused on two research objectives that based on the nature of heads of school leadership practices and remedial measures of resolving challenges facing heads of schools in implementation of leadership practices. The study employed purposeful sampling to select 06 heads of schools and 01 DEO, and 110 teachers were obtained by using the Boyd and Westfal formula from public secondary schools sampled in this study. The questionnaires for teachers consisted of 21 items constructed based on a 5-point Likert scale. Validity was ensured through the involvement of three experts from JUCo and the reliability of instruments was tested through the Cronbach Alpha technique at 0.87 coefficient level of internal consistency. Descriptive statistics mainly mean and percentages were used to analysis quantitative data and thematic analysis was used in qualitative analysis of data. The study revealed the distinction of heads of schools’ leadership practices being absolutely important to teachers’ job performances in public secondary schools. The study also found the importance of heads of schools’ leadership practices application like motivation to teachers to increase their altitudes of teaching and effective communication in resolving the challenges in the implementation of leadership practices by teachers for job performances in public secondary schools. The study concluded that heads of schools in Kigoma District Council are successful in carrying out the leadership practices that support teachers’ job performances. The study also found that heads of schools in public secondary schools in Kigoma District Council possess some remedy measures that help them to solve challenges timely and correctly that face teachers during leadership practices implementation. Therefore, the study recommended capacity-building through different seminars and training for heads of schools on leadership practices skills for quality controlling and guiding teachers for effective job performances.
Keywords: Leadership, Secondary Schools, heads of schools, teachers’ job performances
The ambidextrous leadership and its impact on organizational performance in the Jordanian government schools from the viewpoint of teachers (Published)
The current study aimed at identifying the skillful leadership behaviors and measuring their impact on organizational performance in Jordanian government schools from the teachers point of view, and to achieve the goals of the study the researcher followed the descriptive analytical approach, in terms of applying the study tool, which was represented in a questionnaire consisting of (30) paragraphs, On the sample, which amounted to (356) male and female teachers from government schools in the Directorate of Jerash Education, the study reached a number of results, the most important of which were: The degree of availability of ingenious leadership behaviors among administrative leaders in Jordanian educational institutions is high, and the degree of organizational performance indicators in educational institutions Jordanian women are also high, and there is a statistically significant effect of adept leadership behavior in Jordanian educational institutions on organizational performance from the point of view of male and female teachers in Jordanian government schools, and the study recommended a number of recommendations, the most important of which were: the need to educate administrators in various fields The Kingdom’s governorates by adopting an ingenious leadership style in management, as it has positive benefits for the education process in Jordan.
Keywords: Leadership, Organizational, Performance, ambidextrous
Leadership Conflicts among Students on Nigerian University Campuses: The Experience of the University of Calabar, Calabar- Nigeria. (Published)
This study examined the factors that give rise to conflicts among students in their pursuit of leadership on the campus of the University of Calabar (UNICAL). Descriptive survey design was used and through stratified random sampling and simple random sampling techniques, a sample size of 250 was derived. Two research questions were raised and a questionnaire tagged, Student Leadership Conflict Scale (SLCS) formed the data collection instrument. Accruing data was analysed using frequencies and percentages. Results indicated (i) high level of conflict among students arising from their pursuit of leadership (ii) financial rewards and other benefits attached to leadership positions as the main motivators of the conflicts experienced. To this end, it was recommended that allowances and other benefits of student leaders be reduced drastically to make it less lucrative and attractive to the greedy grabbing ones among the students.
Keywords: Conflict, Leadership, Student Associations, Student Unionism, Violence
Principals Performance of Supervision of Instructions in Secondary Schools in Nigeria (Published)
The study examined principals’ performance of internal supervision of instructions in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State. Principals’ internal supervision was delimited to classroom supervision of instruction, monitoring students’ achievement, instructional materials and staff development. Two research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. A sample of 605 out of 1640 teachers was drawn using stratified proportionate sampling techniques across urban and rural teachers. A questionnaire titled ‘principals’ performance of supervision of instruction questionnaire’ was used as the instrument. The data collected were analyzed using mean scores, standard deviation and t-test statistics to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. The findings showed a significant positive difference between urban and rural teachers on principals’ performance of supervisory functions. The study recommended regular internal supervision of instruction since it encourages wider coverage of the curriculum and reduces incidences of examination malpractices by students
Keywords: Instructional Supervision, Leadership, Supervision, Urban and Rural Teachers
Leadership Profile and School Improvement (Published)
Several research studies indicated that school leadership plays an important role in the improvement process of schools. However, the nature of this relationship is not clear and has been a blind spot in the corresponding literature (Harris, 2005). As such, the aim of this multiple case study is to shed light on the relationship between school improvement and school leadership. Eight Lebanese private schools principals constituted the participants of this study. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from various sources. Qualitative data was analyzed using the procedures of the grounded theory. Quantitative data was collected to provide better interpretation of the collected qualitative data. A leadership profile for school improvement was suggested as a result of this study. A set of leadership attributes seems to be necessary for school improvement efforts to succeed. In particular, school leaders must be knowledgeable, systems thinkers, and data-driven, with a vision guided by student-centered values.
Keywords: Data Driven Decision Making, Leadership, School Improvement, systems thinking
CHALLENGES TO SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS’ LEADERSHIP IN NORTHERN REGION OF NIGERIA (Published)
The authors of this article promise of establishing a constructive conversation with the secondary schools board on issues of principal leadership position. This study investigated challenges to secondary school principals’ leadership in government own secondary schools in the areas of instructional supervision and provision of funds. The sample for the study was 133 principals of government own secondary schools, selected on the basis of 7 principals from each state of the 19 states that constitute northern region of Nigeria. The instrument for data collection was a 20 items questionnaire title: Challenges to Secondary School Principals Leadership Challenges Questionnaires (CSSPLQ). Two research questions were formulated, data collected were converted to mean, standard deviation and used to answer the research questions. It was recommended that, principals of government secondary schools should be re-train through attending conference and seminars for improvement in instructional supervision. The government should provide adequate fund directly to the state schools bank account for principals to execute their school activities effectively.
Keywords: Challenges, Leadership, Management, Principals