Experiences of Teachers Regarding School Leadership: A Case Study

Abstract

School administrators’ leadership affects how much schools reach their goals besides teachers. Literature review shows many studies addressing school leaders’ impact on teachers. However, there are few studies on how teachers perceive administrators’ leadership and how this affects their psychological world. This study aims at exploring how teachers perceive their experiences with school leaders. A case study design was adopted in this study, whose study group included 16 public school teachers in 2020-2021 academic year. The data were analysed via content analysis. The results show participants’ views on their experiences regarding administrators’ leadership fall under six themes; vision, environmental analysis, unconventional behaviour, personal risk, sensitivity and institutionalization. Teachers’ opinions on their experiences about administrators’ leadership fall under three themes; feelings towards school administrator, colleagues and students. Lastly, teachers’ opinions about the effects of experiences and perceptions regarding administrator’s leadership fall under three themes; task, school-context and adaptation performance.

Keywords

• Leadership
• school administrators
• teachers’ experiences and perceptions

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