Instructional Leadership Practices: Teachers Perceptions of a Rural School Principal in Fiji

Perceptions of elementary teachers on the instructional leadership role of school principals

In this research, elementary school principals’ instructional leadership behavior was evaluated based on the perceptions of elementary school teachers. The research is believed to contribute to the development of instructional leadership behavior of elementary school principals for the development of school organization. A “semi-structured interview technique”, one of the qualitative research m...

Factors Influencing Junior High School Teachers' Computer-Based Instructional Practices Regarding Their Instructional Evolution Stages

Sandholtz, Ringstaff, & Dwyer (1996) list five stages in the “evolution” of a teacher’s capacity for computerbased instruction—entry, adoption, adaptation, appropriation and invention—which hereafter will be called the teacher’s computer-based instructional evolution. In this study of approximately six hundred junior high school science and mathematics teachers in Taiwan who have integrated com...

Principal Leadership and School Renewal

Introduction The study upon which this paper is based solicited information on school renewal from a purposive sample of principals initially identified using quantitative profiling techniques (Silcox, Cavanagh and Dellar, 2003). Principals were presented with a series of questions that enabled an investigation of their leadership behaviours with respect to school renewal. The principals' respo...

Teacher Perceptions of African-American Principal Leadership

Leadership Practices of School Counselors