Instructional Leadership Practices of Public School Administrators

Abstract

Introduction

Instructional leadership facilitates direction and support for a school's instructional program. It is organizational glue that keeps things on track. Instructional leadership is practiced by a school head who makes sure that common goals are understood and that everyone feels accountable for one's performance; where the goal is to improve instruction to achieve quality education; and where the goal is realized by making sure that existing policies, practices, and resources are aligned with one another. A school becomes effective when its principal practices instructional leadership.

Methods

The researcher utilized the descriptive method of research that is concerned with the description of data and characteristics of a population. The goal is the acquisition of factual, accurate and systematic data that can be used in averages, frequencies, and similar statistical calculations and to answer the problems in this study.

Results

The following are the salient findings of this study: (1)The youngest of the school administrators is 31 years old and the oldest is 60 years old, but most of them are between 41-50 years old, that is 20 or 44.4 percent, who are largely women in number that is 34 or 76 percent, married 42 or 93 percent, obtained their doctoral units 20 or 44.4 percent, have 11-15 years as a school administrator, that is 20 or 44.4 percent, have transformational leadership style 20 or 44.4 percent, and have attended 7 or more training in the district and division levels. (2)The extent of instructional leadership practices of school administrators obtained a transmuted rating of "Extensive" with an overall weighted mean of 4.22. (3) The school administrators significantly differ in their instructional leadership practices when grouped according to their profile variables. (4) The school administrators' extent of instructional leadership practices do not have significant relationships on their profile variables.

Discussions

Based on the aforecited findings and conclusions of this study, the following recommendations are forwarded:(1)The school administrators must be encouraged, motivated and inspired to complete their graduate and post-graduate degrees to upgrade themselves personally and professionally. (2) The school administrators should always aspire for excellent performance in their instructional leadership practices by being dynamic administrators. (3)More appropriate and relevant variables should be explored to better the performance of school administrators.