Principals’ Instructional Management: Its Relationship To Teachers And Pupils’ Performance in Region III

Abstract

The major concern of the study was to determine how the instructional management may improve the teachers and pupil’s performance. The correlation research design was used in the study to describe the instructional management of the school principals under the study, also the teachers and their pupils’ performance. Variables in principals’ instructional management will be correlated to teachers and pupils’ performance by Pearson r. Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) is a questionnaire designed by Dr. Philip Hallinger, Hong Kong Institute of Education. The objective of the PIMRS is to provide a principal-based leadership profile. The questionnaire consists of 50 principal job practices and behaviors (Hallinger, 2010). The IPCRF of the teachers was used as a tool in gathering information and data about teachers’ performance. The final rating of the first to fourth quarter grades of the grade six pupils from the Form 137-E and periodic test result were used in the study to provide data on pupils performance as an offshoot of the instructional management given to teachers. Mean scores will be used to represent pupils’ performance, on the final rating of the first to fourth quarter grades from the Form 137-E of the grade six pupils. The instructional management provided by the school principals was divided into three dimensions: defining the school mission, managing the instructional program and developing the school learning climate. The principal instructional management have a bearing on the performance of teachers who are the direct focus of the instructional management. The teachers, who are part of the school directly be improve or not by the instructional management. The pupils who are in the center of the learning process of the school directly benefit from the performance of the teachers by having improved performance. As a whole, the pupils benefit not only from the teachers, but from the whole process brought about by the improvements that the instructional management brings about. There were significant relationship between the principals’ instructional management and teachers’ performance and between the principals’ instructional management and the pupils’ performance, implications for educational management was drawn in the study.