The Meetings Management in the Secondary Schools in Ramtha District, from the Teachers Point of View

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the reality of meetings management in secondary schools in Ramtha District, from the teachers' point of view, and to reveal the impact of each of (sex, educational qualification, experience) on the reality of the teachers' meetings management assessments, in the secondary schools.The two researchers, in order to achieve the objectives of the study, followed the descriptive method survey: they prepared a questionnaire consisting of (43) paras distributed on four axes: (meetings planning skill, meetings organization skill, human relations skill and evaluation skill), their validity and reliability were confirmed. The questionnaire was applied on a sample of (201) teachers, selected in a simple randomly way. Among the most important findings the study reached to, are as follows:The meetings management skill practices by the secondary school principals, in their schools in the Ramtha District, were intermediate, and the axis of human relations has got the first position, followed by the axis of the meetings organization in second position, followed by the axis of the valuation in the third position and finally the axis of meetings planning came in fourth position. The results showed absence of statistically significant differences in the evaluations of the  secondary school teachers, to the extent the secondary school principals practicing  the skills of meetings management attributed to sex (gender) variable; and the presence of statistically significant differences in secondary school teachers, to the extent the secondary school principals practicing  the skills of meetings management attributed to the meetings management skill attributed to educational qualification variable in both the second and fourth axis meetings organization skill and evaluation skills), the results were in favor of an intermediate diploma than the bachelor degree, and the presence of  statistically significant differences in the estimations of  the secondary stage teachers of the extent the secondary school principals practicing the skills meetings management attributed to the variable of  experience in the first, third and fourth axis (planning skill, human relationships skill and estimation skill), the results came in favour  of less than (5) years experience category than that experience category of less than 5 years to less than 10 years.The study recommended a set of recommendations highlighted the need to choose the school principal according to scientific methodology, so that the driving conditions and experience is available to have an effect on others, and join the principals of training sessions during the service to know the new methods of how to manage and plan, organize and evaluate the meetings that take place in their schools.

Keywords:Management Meetings, School Meetings Management and Secondary School