Leadership behaviour and practices of a Head Teacher in an excellent school
The purpose of this study is to explore the behaviours and practices of a head teacher in an excellent school. This study also intends to find out the leadership behaviours and practices of the head teacher that contribute towards the excellent academic and co-curricular achievements and how...
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| Format: | Thesis |
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/557/1/Leadership_behaviour.pdf http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/557/ |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this study is to explore the behaviours and practices of a head teacher in
an excellent school. This study also intends to find out the leadership behaviours and practices
of the head teacher that contribute towards the excellent academic and co-curricular
achievements and how the excellent results are consistently maintained year after year.
Additionally, this study also hopes to explore the head teacher’s administrative style in the
school. The qualitative research framework was adopted to gain an understanding of the head
teacher’s leadership behaviour and practices. The research design was a single case study,
where data was collected through interviews, observations and document analysis. The
school under study scored more than ninety percent passes in the UPSR examination, sports
and co-curricular champions at the zone and district level besides being free of any discipline
problems. The subject in this study was the head teacher of the school while the key
informants comprised five teachers, two support staff and two parents from the school.
Transcriptions of the interviews and field notes were made immediately after each interview
and observation. The findings of the study revealed that the vision of the head teacher was
paramount for school excellence; teaching of the curriculum was top priority; programmes for
individual pupils’ indifferences were implemented; collaborative leadership practiced in the
administration and most major decisions regarding academic or non academic were made in
consensus with the staff. The findings of the study also revealed various implications such as
the importance of effective managerial skills used in executing instructional tasks as well as
implementing effective academic, co-curricular and discipline programmes for school
excellence. (Author's abstract) |
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