Leadership Skills of Public Elementary School Heads

Abstract:

A successful school is managed by quality leaders who have practical leadership skills to ensure the realization of the school's vision, mission, and targets. Hence, this study was conducted to determine the school heads’ level of leadership skills as assessed by their teachers in a medium-sized School Division in Central Philippines during the School Year 2022-2023. A descriptive research design was employed on 217 public elementary school teachers using the researcher-made questionnaire that passed the validity and reliability tests. The leadership skills in this study covered only the areas of training, coaching, and delegating. The results reveal that school heads had remarkably high leadership skills in all the areas covered in this investigation. Even when the teachers were grouped according to age, length of service, and plantilla position, they still rated their school heads' leadership skills as very high. Furthermore, no significant difference was found in school heads’ level of leadership skills when respondents were grouped and compared by the same three demographic variables. These findings call for the inclusion of other variables like performance and highest educational attainment for the demographic profiles in similar studies in the future, the institution of a recognition system for school heads who are highly performing, and continued mentoring and coaching among school heads to further improve their level of leadership skills.

Keywords: School Heads, Leadership, Training, Coaching, Delegating