The Status of Leadership and Management Skills of School Heads Relative to Teaching Effectiveness in Tanauan City South and West Districts: A Basis for a Training Design

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Excellence starts with leaders of good and strong characters who are engaged in the entire leadership and management of every institution when it comes to nurturing the children. The first process is being a person of honorable character. In this study, we identify the status of leadership and management skills of school heads relative to teaching effectiveness in Tanauan City South and West District: basis for a training design.

METHODS

The descriptive method of research was used in this study in an attempt to describe the data with the correctional analysis of the different factors considered. The respondents of the study were fourteen (14) school heads and two hundred nine (209) teachers of public elementary schools in Tanauan City South andWest District. The results of the two tests were compared using the t-test statistical tool, since, a significant difference is found to exist between the two tests, and then reliability status of the prepared materials had been established.

RESULTS

According to the result of the conducted study, the status of leadership skills of the school heads in Tanauan City South and West District as perceived by themselves and the teachers in terms of motivating, communicating, coordinating, evaluating and receiving feedback and in terms of planning, implementing, organizing, directing and controlling was very highly observed, It as well showed that there is a non-significant differences between the perceptions of two sets of respondents on the assessment of leadership and management skills shown by the school heads and the level of effectiveness of teachers as perceived by the school heads and by the teachers themselves in terms of teaching principles and methods, knowledge of the subject, classroom management, motivational teacher behavior and personal and social characteristics was rated very highly effective.

DISCUSSIONS

The principals and teachers are encouraged to maintain the standards that they have in school programs and projects to be educationally equipped and to have the appropriate knowledge in leadership and management skills; be motivated to maintain a well-developed evaluation procedures on the teachers development in terms of teaching effectiveness; school must provide suggestions and offering more constructive activities and teachers programs of development for the internal efficiencies.; Research studies are recommended along the areas of leadership and management skills and teacher's effectiveness in teaching using other variables whichare not included in the present study.