Curriculum Management and Supervision at Primary Schools
Comparing Instructional Leaders’ Practices and Teachers' Opinion
Keywords:
Instructional Leadership, Primary Level, Teacher’s Opinion, Self-Reported Practices, Principals, Curriculum Management and SupervisionAbstract
The study's goal is to analyze and compare the practices of principals/heads and opinion of teachers on the approaches used by principals in implementing the educational programme utilizing Hellinger's Instructional Leadership Model. The study also tries to find the answer if there are any differences between principals’ self-reported practices and teachers opinion about those self-reported practices. As an instructional leader, principal’s practices are of significant importance for an effective school system. The study participants include all the principals/heads and teachers of both public and private sector primary schools in the Lahore district. Due to time constraints data was collected from 100 principals and 100 teachers using a researcher made questionnaires for principals and teachers. The 11 items questionnaire was bead on 5 point Likert type scale. The validity was established through expert opinion while reliability for both the tools were .891 and .824 respectively. The findings revealed some disparities between the perceptions of principals and teachers towards managing the instructional program, with both descriptive and inferential statistical methods employed. The findings reflect that both teachers and principals have agreement on certain practices of instructional leader’s self-reported practices about managing instructional programs at schools.
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