Decision-Making Competencies of School Heads in the Public Elementary Schools in San Juan District Division of Batangas

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Making good decisions is one of the main leadership tasks of a school head. The importance of the principal's decision in the success of education is evidently in focus because the educational system is the main agent in the acquisition of knowledge and skills. The success and failure of thesystem are principally what the principal deals with, handles, manages, and decides concerning the activities to be undertaken and the problems to be solved. The competence of the principal in this aspect, therefore, leads to high performance and the production of excellent outcomes.

METHODS

The researcher utilized the researcher-made-questionnaire as the main data gathering instrument in the conduct of this study. It consists of 2 parts: Part I dealt with the profile of respondents and Part 2 dealt with the competencies on the decision-making of the respondents.

The researchers examined the questionnaire utilized by various researchers together with several books, unpublished theses & dissertations. She used them as her guide while organizing the data from each of them until she came up with her own instrument that fitted the problems identified. The researcher formulated the first draft of the questionnaire and presented it to her adviser for comments and corrections. After considering the suggestions, the researcher prepared the final draft of the instrument for validation purposes. The researcher requested permission from the district supervisor of San Juan West District regarding the use of 10 principals and 15 teachers to validate. She asked for the assistance and cooperation of the principals in answering the questionnaire and help her in distributing copies of the questionnaire of the teachers. After three weeks 100 percent of the questionnaire were retrieved

RESULTS

This study centered on the competencies of principals in the San Juan District, Division of Batangas as assessed by themselves and their teachers. It involved 27 principals and 142 teachers who were sampled randomly from the population of school heads and teachers assigned in one central and 5 barrio school in the district of San Juan West. The substitute teachers were not included as respondents.

DISCUSSIONS

The action plan developed and suggested based on the result of the study conducted. This was aimed at helping to enhance further the decision-making competencies of school heads. Each area suggests different activities that would help school heads developed their skills in decision-making.KEYWORDS: