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A STUDY OF HEAD TEACHERS LEADERSHIP QUALITIES AND TEACHERS ATTITUDE TO TEACHING TOWARDS SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-I).44      10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-I).44      Published : Mar 2022

A Study of Head Teachers' Leadership Qualities and Teachers' Attitude to Teaching towards School Performance

Abstract

    Education is a social paradigm. The objectives of the current study were to; figure out the basic needs for successful leadership, determine the leadership tools and service delivery methods that advance to greater performance leadership, to analyze the impact of teachers' attitudes towards teaching in high-performing schools. This is a quantitative research design and descriptive method. A survey includes questionnaires for data collection with the intention to generalize from a sample to a population. Male and female teachers and principals teaching at secondary public schools' tehsil Chichawatni District Sahiwal were the populations of the study. A sample of 60 Principals (30 male and 30 female) and 240 teachers (120 male and 120 female) were selected. The researcher used self-developed two questionnaires one for teachers and one for principals to collect the data and it was validated by the experts. The data were analyzed through (frequency distribution) and the Inferential method (t-test, ANOVA).

    Head Teachers (HT), Leadership qualities (LQ), Teachers Attitudes (TA), School Performance (SP)

    (1) Shazia Bibi
    Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Ifrah Khalid
    Lecturer Department of Economics, University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Zunaira Fatima
    Department of Education, University of Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Bibi, S., Khalid, I., & Fatima, Z. (2022). A Study of Head Teachers' Leadership Qualities and Teachers' Attitude to Teaching towards School Performance. Global Educational Studies Review, VII(I), 459-471 . https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-I).44

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    CHICAGO : Bibi, Shazia, Ifrah Khalid, and Zunaira Fatima. 2022. "A Study of Head Teachers' Leadership Qualities and Teachers' Attitude to Teaching towards School Performance." Global Educational Studies Review, VII (I): 459-471 doi: 10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-I).44

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    HARVARD : BIBI, S., KHALID, I. & FATIMA, Z. 2022. A Study of Head Teachers' Leadership Qualities and Teachers' Attitude to Teaching towards School Performance. Global Educational Studies Review, VII, 459-471 .

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    TURABIAN : Bibi, Shazia, Ifrah Khalid, and Zunaira Fatima. "A Study of Head Teachers' Leadership Qualities and Teachers' Attitude to Teaching towards School Performance." Global Educational Studies Review VII, no. I (2022): 459-471 . https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2022(VII-I).44