The Degree of Undertaking Leadership Roles by Teachers and its Relationship to Institutional Excellence in Schools Across the Green Line from the Point of View of “Teacher Leaders”:" Proposed Model"

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the degree to which teachers play leadership roles and its relationship to institutional excellence in schools within the Green Line from the point of view of Teacher Leaders. The study sample consisted of (397) Teacher Leaders, and interview sample consisted of (15) expert leaders working in schools within the Green Line chosen by stratified random method from the study population of (3,970) Teacher Leaders. The study used the descriptive correlational method. The study used the descriptive correlational method. Three instruments have been developed to collect the study data: the first questionnaire is a 19-items measure of the degree to which teachers play their leadership roles in schools, while the questionnaire second includes a measure of the level of institutional excellence, divided into four domains distributed over (26) items. The virtual validity of the tool was examined by a panel of arbitrators, and the internal consistency of the study tool was ascertained by calculating the (Cronbach alpha) coefficient. The results of the study showed that the participants’ estimates of the degree to which teachers play leadership roles, as well as their estimation of the degree of institutional excellence, came to a high degree on the two scales and their domains, and there were statistically significant differences in the estimates of the study sample regarding the role performance of teacher leadership and institutional excellence. The results also showed the existence of a correlation between the degree of teachers playing leadership roles in schools within the Green Line and achieving institutional excellence from the teachers’ point of view. The second instrument was the interview which consists of two domains: The first domain looks at the obstacles that prevent teachers from performing their leadership roles, and what are the proposals teachers needed to develop and improve their leadership roles from the teachers’ point of view. As for the second domain - it searches for the obstacles that hinder the achievement of institutional excellence and what are the proposals to enhance institutional excellence from the point of view of the teacher leaders, and the qualitative data was analyzed by reviewing the content of the interviews more than once with the aim of limiting the answers to topics, then the topics reached were classified in categories The study concluded with designing the suggested model, discussion and recommendations.