| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺北市立師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 90 === A Study on the Administration Concerns of
Elementary School Principals
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to understand the content of elementary school principals’ concerns in administration and its relationship to the related factors. It is , hereby, provided the following suggestions for educational agencies as reference.
The study is based on Fuller’s theory, taken into consideration such as principal’s duties, role, school effectiveness, administration assessment etc. A self-edited questionnaire on the administration concerns of elementary school principals is used as a tool. 130 principals From the Taipei Municipal Elementary Schools, were chosen us the subjects of the survey 109 and effective questionnaires were obtained. The data of the survey was analyzed by one-way MANOVA, Scheffe’s method, and posteriori comparisons. The conclusions of the study are as follows:
1) The contents of elementary school principal’s administration concerns are the implementation of educational policy, the administration management, the teaching quality, learning performance, school public relationships and school environmental equipments.
2) The three current main concerns of elementary school principal’s administration concerns are school administration management, school environmental equipment, and learning performance. The following concrete issues are highly concerned by all the surveyed elementary school principals: prevention on safety and management, formation of student’s good habits, ability to create a warm learning environment, ability to create harmonious environment in personnel, teacher’s ability in classroom management, the effectiveness and service quality of each offices, the effectiveness of construction management, school image in the community, the effectiveness of job allocation, the relationship between teacher and students.
3) The administration concerns of elementary school’s principal are not restricted by personal background.
4) Various degrees of administration concerns are effective by the following factors: gender, age, seniority as a principal, seniority as a principal in current school, educational background, ways of assignment, size of school. However, there are some exceptions such as principals aged between 56-65, seniority as a principal over 17 years, seniority as a principal in current school over 7 years, school size under 24 classes and over 79 classes. There is also no difference between principals from different districts.
According to the above conclusion, this survey proposes the following suggestions:
1) For educational agencies:
1. To meet the general request and special needs, educational agencies should assist elementary school principal to solve school’s organizational or systematical problems.
2. In order to promote elementary school principal’s ability on problem solving and reinforce the proper concerns, educational agencies should design on-job training and counseling system for elementary school principals.
3. Educational agencies should encourage elementary school principals to publish their action research through school management experiences or other approaches.
4. Educational agencies should take elementary school principal’s administration concerns into consideration.
2) For elementary school principals:
1. Encourage themselves to attend on-job training to increase the ability on school administration concerns.
2. Constantly evaluate the variety of their concerns about school administration.
3. The professional organization of principal should establish self-improvement groups or organize seminars to promote the ability in school management.
4. Properly organize training courses related to instructional leadership.
5. Promote the quality of life for elementary school principals, in order to prolong their motivation and enthusiasm.
6. Foster additional specialties to manage a proper career development
3) For the educational agencies providing programs for elementary school principals:
1. The curriculum design should include 6 main contents of school principals’ administration concerns. Furthermore, the educational agencies should pay attention to the contents or concrete issues that are widely concerned.
2. To promote the psychological traits, the principal-to-be should be equipped with the idea of ” no self-concern”.
3. By applying internship or apprenticeship to improve the proper administration concerns of the principals-to-be, so their ability to solve administration problems can be enhanced.
Key words：concern , concern on the administration
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