The Level of Leadership and Management Performance of School Heads in the Division of Quezon: A Basis for a Proposed Sustainability Plan

Abstract

The current undertaking sought an answer to the demographic profile of the school heads, their performance level, the challenges met, and the proposed training design. It employed a mixed-method of research design, also known as qualitative-quantitative. Thus, the data needed were gathered using a survey questionnaire and an interview. The school heads which served as respondents of this study were randomly chosen, which was composed of 112. Seven (7) from them were interviewed. From the result of this study, the researcher formulated the conclusions that majority of the respondents were aged 41 years old and above, female, were Head Teacher I, 2 to 4 years, and MA graduate, the performance level of the school heads in terms of instructional leadership and administrative management both got verbal interpretation of excellent. Challenges met by the school heads in instructional leadership include the following: teachers did not like to be observed: can hardly change their old ways or follow instructions while in administrative management, teachers consider community activity as another work and are faced with non-participative parents. It also found out that the level of acceptability and usability of the developed sustainability plan was highly acceptable. In this study, it is recommended to the future researchers to use the principals as their respondents, correlate the performance level of the teachers in teaching-learning process and the school heads' instructional leadership, find out if there is a significant difference in the performance level and challenges met by the headteachers and principals: and to the school to utilize the sustainability plan as the output of this study.