Principals' Leadership Competencies and Social Responsibilities as Related to the Students' Academic Achievement towards an Enhanced Training Program

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study aimed to identify and determine the significant difference in the level of leadership competencies and social responsibility as assessed by the principals themselves and their teachers; discuss the existing relationship of the leadership competencies and social responsibility as related to academic performance of the Grade 9 students for SY 2016-2017 among the 100 teachers in 13 private schools in the municipality of Trece Martires City, Cavite.

METHODS

Purposive Sampling and total enumeration of the population were used to gather data the instruments used were found to be reliable and valid to measure the leadership competencies and social responsibility of the principals.

RESULTS

The findings show that the level of leadership competency of the principals as they assessed themselves is very satisfactory. Likewise, the teachers' assessed leadership competency of their principals is also very satisfactory. It is found to have a high sense of social responsibility among the principals as they assessed themselves similarly with the assessment by their teachers. There is no significant difference comparing the level of leadership competency of the principal as they assessed themselves and as they were assessed by their teachers. There is also no significant difference comparing the social responsibilities of the principal as they assessed themselves and as they were assessed by their teachers.

DISCUSSIONS

The General Weighted Average of Grade 9 students in all private schools is 89 percent which indicates a very satisfactory rating. However, there is no significant correlation that exists between the following variables 1. Self-Perceived Leadership Competency of the Principal and Academic Performance of Grade 9 students; 2. Leadership Competency of the Principal as Assessed by the Teachers and Academic Performance of Grade 9 Students; 3. the Self-Perceived Social Responsibility of the Principals and the Academic Performance of Grade 9 Students and 4. the Social Responsibility as Assessed by the Teachers to their Principal and the Academic Performance of Grade 9 Students on the First Quarter of 2016-2017. The proposed program for the personal and professional growth of the school heads was enhanced to fit the 21st-century learners in the context of challenges in leadership and corresponding social responsibilities.