Leadership Skills of School Principals in the Directorate of Education in Jerash Governorate from the Point of View of Teachers

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the leadership skills of school principals in the Directorate of Education in Jerash Governorate from the teachers' point of view. The researcher used the descriptive approach, where a questionnaire was designed as a tool for data collection and the research sample consisted of (105) male and female teachers in the schools of education in Jerash Governorate, and they were selected in the available way. The results indicated a (high) level of leadership skills for school principals in the Directorate of Education in Jerash Governorate from the teachers’ point of view, and the field (human skills) ranked first with a high degree, followed by the field (intellectual skills) in the second place with a high degree, followed by the field (technical skills) ) ranked third with a high degree. The results also indicated that there were no statistically significant differences (α = 0.05) due to the effect of the variables of gender and years of experience for the leadership skills of school principals in the Directorate of Education in Jerash Governorate from the teachers' point of view.

Keywords: Leadership skills, teachers, school administrators

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-17-17

Publication date:June 30^th 2022