title: Leadership behaviour and practices of a Head Teacher in an excellent school
creator: Azian Ahmad Shaharbi, 
subject: 
description:  The purpose of this study is to explore the behaviours and practices of a head teacher in   an excellent school. This study also intends to find out the leadership behaviours and practices   of the head teacher that contribute towards the excellent academic and co-curricular   achievements and how the excellent results are consistently maintained year after year.    Additionally, this study also hopes to explore the head teacher’s administrative style in the   school. The qualitative research framework was adopted to gain an understanding of the head   teacher’s leadership behaviour and practices. The research design was a single case study,   where data was collected through interviews, observations and document analysis.  The   school under study scored  more than ninety percent passes in the UPSR examination, sports   and co-curricular champions at the zone and district level besides being free of any discipline   problems. The subject in this study was the head teacher of the school while the key   informants comprised five teachers, two support staff and two parents from the school.   Transcriptions of the interviews and field notes were made immediately after each interview   and observation. The findings of the study revealed that the vision of the head teacher was   paramount for school excellence; teaching of the curriculum was top priority; programmes for   individual pupils’ indifferences were implemented;  collaborative leadership practiced in the   administration and most major decisions regarding academic or non academic were made in   consensus with the staff. The findings of the study also revealed various implications such as   the importance of effective managerial skills used  in executing instructional tasks as well as   implementing effective academic, co-curricular and  discipline programmes for school   excellence.  (Author's abstract)
date: 2010
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/557/1/Leadership_behaviour.pdf
identifier:   Azian Ahmad Shaharbi,   (2010) Leadership behaviour and practices of a Head Teacher in an excellent school.  Masters thesis, Open University Malaysia.   
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/557/