Identifying Behaviors and Dimensions of Teaching-Learning Leadership of Elementary School Principals: A Qualitative Research

Document Type : Qualitative Research Paper

Authors

1 Professor, Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

2 PhD Student of Educational Management, Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

3 Professor of Educational Management, Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

4 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Administration, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.34785/J010.2021.034

Abstract

A general consensus has been created on the need for the presence of effective school
leaders who have can improve the quality of teaching-learning. Instructional leadership is a
comprehensive activity which provides learning opportunities for teacher professional
development and student academic achievement. This study was qualitative of descriptive-
exploratory type. Thematic analysis and themes network were used to identify the behaviors
and dimensions of instructional leadership. In order to collect and identify themes,
theoretical foundations and opinions of experts in this field were extracted and coded by
analyzing the sources published texts during 1990-2018 which were indexed in databases.
Due to the large number of sources, a number of them were selected based on sample
criteria. In the present study, the coding first was done manually by studying the teaching-
learning leadership-related articles and documents (line by line) and computer coding was
done with MAXQDA after completing the manual coding. Then, the results of these two
codings were compared with each other, and the Holsti’s approach was used to calculate the
reliability, the reliability of which was 0.92.. Findings indicated that instructional leadership
has eight dimensions, 25 components and 177 behaviors whose dimensions include defining
the school’s vision, school-based supervision, action research, the teacher professional
development, preparation, monitoring of the teaching-learning process, distributive
leadership, and curriculum management.

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School Administration
Volume 9, Issue 4
December 2021
Pages 133-147

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  • Receive Date: 28 August 2021
  • Revise Date: 12 February 2022
  • Accept Date: 28 February 2022

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