This study profiles existing principal's leadership and teacher's instructional behaviors based on the teacher's acknowledgement, and examines how the principal's instructional leadership affects teacher's behaviors. By doing this, this study can addr...
This study profiles existing principal's leadership and teacher's instructional behaviors based on the teacher's acknowledgement, and examines how the principal's instructional leadership affects teacher's behaviors. By doing this, this study can address fundamental resources which can improve instruction's quality; it enables a school to increase effectiveness in overall teaching areas.
In order to accomplish this goal, there are three distinctive research questions.
RQ1. How teachers acknowledge with principal's instructional leadership?
RQ2. How teachers acknowledge with their teaching behaviors?
RQ3. What is the relationship between principal's instructional leadership and each teacher's teaching behaviors?
For conducting this research, besides doing literature reviews, I chose the population of this research as teachers who belong to the Ministry of Education of Seoul, Korea. The survey is conducted with all teachers in 530 public schools among the possible 572 schools in the ministry which except private and national ones. Based on the size of each school, I chose 15 schools at first as stratified sampling method. Then, five teachers per each grade level became survey respondents: Consequently, 30 teachers participated with the survey, and 407 survey sheets were examined in a whole. The conceptual definition of principal's instructional leadership is followed by 이석열 (1987), the definition of teaching behaviors comes from revision of both 손충기(1994) and 한혜성(2005). Within the method, the arithmetic means and standard deviation can be measured. Additionally I did T-test, One-way ANOVA F-Test, Correlational analysis, and multiple regression analysis.
The possible result of the study is as followed:
First of all, in terms of teachers, the level of acknowledging principal's instructional leadership would be above average. The most frequent and higher indicators are principal's vision, supporting instructions, evaluation of teaching, and improvement of teaching as the order. In other words, indirect leadership can be more acknowledged than direct leadership. Also, I would examine teacher's gender, career, education levels, and positions, principal's gender. As a result, if the longer career the principal has, the higher positions the teacher has, and the smaller the school is, then the stronger acknowledgment towards principal's leadership there are. However, the differences of acknowledging the leadership in terms of teacher's gender, education level and principal's gender are less significant.
Secondly, teacher's acknowledgment towards its teaching behaviors is more than moderate level. The strongest acknowledgments are active interaction, lucid understanding of courses, distinctive characters of courses, and variety of ways presenting contents, and appropriate evaluations as follows. If the longer career teachers have, and within 36 to 42 classes, the higher they acknowledge about their teaching behaviors. However, the differences of acknowledging teaching behaviors in terms of teacher's gender, education level and positions are less significant.
Last, there would be a weak correlation between principal's instructional leadership and teaching behaviors measured as 17.4 percent. The most significant indicator of teaching behaviors is the length of teacher's careers, principal's will to improve instruction, and principal's suggesting vision.