Head Teacher as an Instructional Leader in School.

Autor: Ch., Abid Hussain, Ahmad, Saghir, Batool, Ayesha
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Zdroj: Bulletin of Education & Research; Apr2018, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p77-87, 11p
Abstrakt: Instructional leadership has become one of the most widely researched topics. This type of leadership has been connected to teacher growth and development, teacher job satisfaction, student achievement, and improving school climate in general. The objective of the study included to determine the role played by head teachers as an instructional leaders in schools through the perceptions of teachers. To achieve this purpose descriptive research method was used. The study was quantitative and survey type in nature. The sample consisted of 200 secondary school teachers. The data were collected from teachers by using a self-developed questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using different descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings of the study indicated that head teachers support creativity, innovation and practice of new skills in the classroom. They also praised to those teachers who use creativity in classrooms to enhance the learning of students. They held meetings with teachers to discuss the students' performance and solve the problems of teachers as an instructional leaders. It is recommended that head teachers may be trained that they can use new innovative methods and ideas to discuss with teachers and they help out the teachers to make the dull topics interesting. Head teachers may be motivated to teachers by giving different incentives in the shape of awards for bringing innovation in school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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