The Generic Qualities and Functional Leadership Skills of Elementary Public School Principals in CALABARZON

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Principals have a multi-faceted task as the instructional leader of the school -an administrator, manager, diplomat, teacher, and curriculum leader. Thus,R.A. No 9155, states that a school head responsible for the administrative and instructional supervision, as such to possesses the educational leadership, people leadership and strategic leadership . In the article by Great Schools Staff (April 2, 2015) entitled " ̃What makes a great principal." includes; taking responsibility for school success, leading teaching and learning, hiring, developing and retaining excellent teachers and building a strong school community.Lastly, the researcher undertook the investigation to give a modest contribution to the success of teaching-learning process being himself a member of a school community.

METHODS

Descriptive-correlational research was employed because it is deemed appropriate for this study because the focus of this study is to determine the generic qualities and functional leadership skills of elementary school principals in CALABARZON.

RESULTS

The teacher assessed all the indicators on the level of generic qualities of the of elementary school principal/teachers in terms of enthusiasm, integrity, toughness, warmth and humanity, and humility as Very Satisfactory interpreted as High Level of their corresponding general mean scores 4.15, 4.17,4.06,4.134.4.10 and general standard deviations of 0.55,0.56,0.61,0.62 and 0.62.

Meanwhile, the principal assessed all the indicators as Outstanding with mean scores of 4.47,4.44,4.49,4.44,4.43 and standard deviations of 0.48,0.53,0.56,0.47 and0.55 as interpreted as Very High Level.The teacher assessed the indicators or the functional leadership skills with the average mean which yields from following 4.12;,4.19;,4.15;,4.20t,4.28; ,4.13 interpreted as High Level.

The principal assessed on the functional leadership skills as Outstanding and Very High Level based on the combined average of 4.56, 4.60, 4.72, 4.56, 4.66 and 4.47.

DISCUSSIONS

The generic qualities like enthusiasm, integrity, toughness, warmth and humanity and humility have a big difference to the functional leadership skill of elementary school principals in CALABARZON in terms of initiative, perseverance, integrity, humor, tact and compassion. This was affirmed by the p-values and interpreted by their linear regression relationships as high, moderate and Very High Level. This means that it has a no significant relationship each indicators.