Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 教育領導與發展研究所碩士在職專班 === 104 === The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between principal leadership behaviors and teacher leadership. The method of questionnaire survey was conducted by teachers in vocational high schools of New Taipei city. There were 721 questionnaires sent out and 592 response with 540 valid returns. The valid returned rate was 91.22%. The following statistical methods were adopted to analyze data, such as t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and the multiple stepwise regression analysis, etc.
The results of the study indicates that all influential factors of the relationship between principal leadership behaviors and teacher leadership are shown above average. Among background variables, teachers’ years of work, gender, job positions, levels of education, the tenure of the principals and the types of schools have shown significant difference between teachers’ perceptions and the principal leadership behaviors. With respect to the background variables, the tenure of the principals and the types of schools are significantly correlated with teacher leadership. In addition, there are significant positive relationships between principal leadership behaviors and the teacher leadership. Among all of the influential factors of principal leadership, the teacher leadership can be best predicted by principals’ encouragieng behavior.
According to the results, it is suggested that the Bureau of Educational needs to provide well-planned learning activities for principals with different tenures, as well as encourage the principals to get more abilities in inspiring teachers. At schools, school leaders should emphasize the interactions between administrative departments and teachers, establish a well-planned job rotation mechanism for teachers, and encourage the teachers to take part in different job position as well as use the communication channels efficiently. On the other hand, teachers should pay more attention to and actively participate in school affairs, establish peer collaboration system, take challenges of various job positions, develop personal potential, and broaden individual perspectives.
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