Design of process model for developing educational leader’s skills: a Qualitative Research

This research was conducted in order to provide a process model for developing the skills of educational leaders in a qualitative way. The purpose of the research, development-application and the approach used in it was the data theory of the foundation. In today's world, school management is not just about managing, organizing, supervising, and disciplining the school. Rather, educational leaders in schools must have special personal characteristics and skills in order to be able to meet and meet the growing needs of students. Because the quality of leadership in a particular school education system can affect learners' academic achievement in a variety of ways and contribute to the effectiveness of schools. In the most comprehensive definition of educational leadership, it is stated that educational leadership is considered as an influential process through which leaders, direction and direction for school, employee motivation, coordination of class strategies to improve education and learning. they prepare. A sociological approach to the pathology of school management can also reflect the impact of school leadership skills on all aspects of school performance. According to some experts, the lack of leadership in many public high schools in the United States has led to a crisis of leadership, a lack of ability to transform schools, and low academic achievement. In this regard, improving the quality and making fundamental changes in schools, not only depends on the quality and managerial and expert qualifications of principals, but also greatly affects the skills of their leadership. Education, like the Transformational Transformation Document, testifies to the high contribution of school leaders in improving the school situation. (20); Curriculum (15%); Space, equipment and technology (11%); Financial resources (4%); Research and Evaluation (6%); Leadership and management (44%) can be clearly seen that the quantitative share of the "leadership and management" sector is higher than other subsystems (44%) and this difference in quantity is definitely due to the improvement. In all aspects of this sub-system, the obvious development of the country's education, especially schools, is considered. However, despite the high importance of educational leadership in schools and its role in the quantitative and qualitative development of the school, it seems that this important issue The proper and real ones have not been properly studied, and mainly, in the relevant relevant sources, the general concept of leadership has been studied, and in fact, there is still a kind of disconnect between the proper and proper characteristics of leadership in schools. It has overshadowed the internal structures and structures of schools, and in view of the fact that in recent years the Ministry of Education has sought to compensate for this shortcoming by implementing upgrades such as the "School Management Excellence Plan".Research conducted inside and outside the country on research topics and the impact of educational leaders on the development and improvement of the teaching and learning process reveals significant facts about the excellence and quality of schools. Therefore, if in the appointment, training or promotion of educational principals, attention is paid to the skills and competencies of their leadership and management, and school principals and teaching staff are aware of the importance and effects related to these skills of principals, then a suitable ground will be provided. All the facilities and resources of the organization have been used in a desirable way, and as a result, in the long run, we will see the increasing productivity of the educational system and the realization of the goals set forth in the upstream documents of the country's educational system. The statistical population of the study includes 4 well-educated professors and experts with scientific achievements in the field of leadership and educational management inside and outside the country, managers of the Ministry of Education, staff and executive managers of Semnan province and Garmsar city and Also, principals with at least 12 years of experience in the management of secondary schools in Garmsar are in the 2018-2019 academic year. The sample size with theoretical saturation was 30 people. Snowball sampling methode’s was used to select the sample. Data collection tools were interviews, the validity of which was confirmed by the "triangulation" method, and its reliability was determined by Cope Cohen coefficient and Cryppendorf Alpha Coefficient by agreement. The statistical population of the study includes 4 well-educated professors and experts with scientific achievements in the field of leadership and educational management inside and outside the country, managers of the Ministry of Education, staff and executive managers of Semnan province and Garmsar city and Also, principals with at least 12 years of experience in the management of secondary schools in Garmsar are in the 2018-2019 academic year. The sample size with theoretical saturation was 30 people. Snowball sampling was used to select the sample. Data collection tools were interviews, the validity of which was confirmed by the "triangulation" method, and the reliability was obtained by the Cope Cohen coefficient and the Cryppendorf alpha coefficient by agreement. Open, centralized, and selective coding was used to analyze the data using Maxqda 2018 software. The results illustrated the process pattern of developing leadership skills in the form of causal factors, contextual conditions, pivotal phenomenon, intermediate conditions, strategies, and outcomes.