Management Skills of School Heads in Relation to The Teachers Performance Towards The Implementation of K to 12 Curriculum

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Effective leaders have good quality management skills. Education further enhances the application of management towards the improvement of the school. In every known great school, there are great leaders crafting the educational management and advancement. The school heads are the primary providers of school total quality development through management skills that being observed of all its major function upon to play. Management skills include the following facets: decision making skills, communication skills, collaboration skills, critical thinking skills, financial skills, project management skills, and organizing skills. These ample skills are the responsibilities which bound in the proper application of functions and duties. Looking at the results would enable the educational leaders to lead in giving emphasis in management.

METHODS

The descriptive evaluative inferential correlational method with documentary analysis was used to gain information and gather data relevant to the management skills and teachers' performance in Atimonan District. The respondents of this study were composed of twenty school heads and two hundred teachers. The statistical tools used were weighted mean, performance level, rank order, Wilcoxon Mann Whitney U Test, Kruskall Wallis One way Anova, Kendall Coefficient of Concordance W, and Spearman Rho Correlation Coefficient. The significance level was set at 0.05.

RESULTS

There is a significant relationship between the management skills and teachers’ performance. Management abilities of school leaders are really correlated with functions as to produce, provide, order through process such as planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, and problem solving. Great leaders understand that some of the best management skills and qualities entail listening to others with undivided attention, recognizing the achievements of teachers, praising effective teaching practices, and encouraging the development of quality teaching, providing constructive feedback to individual teachers, and assisting teachers in identifying their potentials and areas and ways for improvements.

DISCUSSIONS

The results demonstrate that management skills are related to the effectiveness of school performance. The school leaders must be prepared in fast changing trends of management skills. This would bring significant influence to the whole institution in dealing all aspects of leadership.