Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to find out the leadership behaviours of school heads of
public and private junior high school head teachers in Tafo Sub Metro in Kumasi
Metropolis and its impact of the students academic performance. The sample for the
study consisted of 120 teachers comprising of 60 from public schools and 60 from private
schools, together with 9 public school head masters and other 9 private school head
masters. Questionnaire in the form of likert format ranging from strongly disagree (1) to
strongly agree (4) was used to collect data. The reliability estimates for teachers was 0.85
and that of the head masters was 0.78. The methodological inquiry was quantitative
research approach using descriptive cross-sectional design which included the following
statistical analyses: mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research
questions. Findings indicated that whiles teachers in private schools agreed that their
head masters employed human relations in managing their schools, their counterparts in
public schools disagreed. Again, whiles head masters in the private schools agreed that
they employ instructional leadership their counterparts in public schools disagreed; both
teachers and head masters in public and private schools noted that building trust or
involving teachers in decision making influence the students’ academic orientation.
Based on the findings, it was recommended that government should make conscious
effort to improve the leadership behavious of head masters in public school by running
in-service training of leadership behaviours for them and also school heads should make
deliberate efforts to involve all teachers in decision making process to make them have a
sense of ownership of schools and to improve the students’ academic orientations.
Description:
A Project Report in the Department of Educational Leadership, Faculty of
Education and Communication Sciences, submitted to the School of Graduate
Studies, University of Education, Winneba, in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for award of the Master of Arts (Educational Leadership) degree
AUGUST, 2016