The Principals' Accomplishment of Administrative Functions and Teachers' Performance in The Public Elementary Schools in Cluster 5 Division of Calamba

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Principals combine and coordinate various kinds of resources by carrying out four basic leadership functions: planning, organizing, leading and monitoring. They play a very vital role in school and solely responsible for all the school's operations. The success of the Department of Education in attaining its vision and mission of providing quality education to Filipinos is largely affected by how the principals accomplish their functions. Thus, the main thrust of the study was to assess the accomplishment level of school administrative functions of principals in relation to teachers' performance of public elementary schools Cluster 5, Division of Calamba City during the school year 2014-2015.

METHODS

The researcher employed descriptive method. A total of six principals and 183 teachers of Cluster 5 in the Division of Calamba City participated in the investigation. Statistical treatments used to measure the data are frequency and percent distribution, the five-point Likert Scale, and the Pearson product-moment correlation.

RESULTS

The results of the study are as follows: the public elementary school principals in Cluster 5 of the Division of Calamba City are assessed as very satisfactory in the four areas of School Administration namely: student development, staff development, curriculum development, and physical development; there is no significant difference in the assessments of the two groups of respondents on the principals' accomplishment of school administrative functions; the level of teachers' performance relative to the key result areas specifically; teaching & learning process, pupils' outcomes, community involvement, and professional growth are evaluated as very satisfactory; and there is a significant relationship between principals' accomplishment of school's administrative functions and teacher performance. The researcher recommends that principals must enhance the accomplishment of their administrative functions and the teachers must continue to improve both personally and professionally to provide better quality education to its stakeholders.

DISCUSSIONS

The findings of the study necessitate the proposal of enhancement program for principals to help them improve/ upgrade their skills in accomplishing their administrative functions specifically on student development, staff development, curriculum development and physical development to successfully attain excellence to ensure competent and well-equipped teachers and learners as the end product of the educational system.