Leadership Qualities of Teachers and Pupils Academic Performance of Hilltop Elementary School: Basis for Strengthening Extreme

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teachers play a very vital role in imparting education. They acquire the totality of the information and qualities of education through instructions and must possess good leadership qualities which maximize the development of a teacher physically, mentally and morally. Along with these ideas and situations cited, the researcher wanted to find out whether leadership qualities of Hilltop teachers.

METHODS

This study utilized the descriptive survey in determining the level of leadership qualities manifested by Hilltop Elementary teachers and their pupils' academic performance. The sampling technique of this study was not applied. The respondents were the 24 Hilltop teachers (3 male, 21 female) as the entire population was applied. Slovin formula was applied in order to get the desired sample size. The questionnaire was adapted from the study of Decir (2011), and revised for the teacher respondents.

RESULTS

The grand mean of 4.00 reveals that the respondents' leadership qualities are high. This was supported by Jerd (2008) that teachers as a leader should possess qualities that can help and improve the performance of their pupils. Teachers should have stable in emotion, enthusiast, and dominant on their work. Being conscientious and tough-minded can really help their lives as a mentor. The data reveal that out of the 285 Hilltop Elementary Pupils, 15 or 5% had an outstanding level of academic performance. This means that these pupils had 90 and above rating in their average grades during the second grading period. These students have met the standards of their subject areas and have mastered the competencies during the grading period.Lastly, we could glean from the data that there are 10 or 4% who had achieved a fair level of academic performance. This means they are not able to meet the desired learning outcomes. They have failed to master the competencies during the second grading period.

DISCUSSIONS

Most of the leadership qualities manifested by Hilltop teachers was high. Most of the Hilltop pupils had satisfactory academic performance. The curriculum planners and the school administrators could provide more training on leadership quality and professional development of Hilltop teachers so that their morale and dignity on teaching would increase through enhancing their self-confidence and maintain to be an enthusiast. The Hilltop pupils could be provided with varied techniques through the added information on new teaching techniques in teaching learned from teachers who manifest high leadership qualities and high emotionally aware. The school must conduct a leadership skills training design to enhance the leadership qualities of Hilltop teachers and to increase thepupil's academic performance. Proposed Leadership Skills Training should be adopted and implemented. For future researchers, this study should be replicated to verify findings.