TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS OF A TOP RATED PRIMARY SCHOOL IN TERMS OF ITS LEADERSHIP CLIMATE
Keywords:
Teacher effectiveness, management, Leadership Climate, Primary schoolAbstract
Teaching is an art and it is always related teachers’ effectiveness. Effective teaching can help the qualitative improvement and achievements of the learners. For an effective teacher some amount of autonomy, support from the management as well as from other staff, motivation, flexibility, respect etc are needed. Teaching is a complex task, in that effectiveness is an evasive concept. Some researchers define effectiveness of teachers in terms of achievements of the students. But here the researcher attempted to measure the effectiveness of teachers of a Primary school in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India in terms of its management and Leadership climate. Forty one teachers and teaching assistants from Vivekananda Memorial Public School, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India were taken as sample. The tools used in this study were Staff Survey: The School Management Scale & Teacher Effectiveness Scale. Descriptive statistics, simple percentage, means, Standard Deviations, chi-square were done to analyse the data. Results were revealed that there is significant relation between teacher effectiveness in terms of management and leadership climate.
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