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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
The relationship between the effectiveness of preschools and leadership styles of school managers
2010 •
Handan Doğan
DETERMINATION OF THE DIFFICULTIES THAT PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS FACE WITH CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT
Bilal AYGUN
The purpose of this study is to determine the classroom management skills of preschool teachers and their relations with other variables. The sample includes 95 preschool teacher that work either state or private preschools in 2012-2013 semester. In order to collect data, a questionnaire is developed by the researchers via analyzing the literature. The questionnaire has 2 parts. The first part includes the age of the teacher, graduation school, year of work, work history, age group that he/she works and the number of students in the classroom. The second part covers 10 items about the difficulties that they face in classroom and behavior management in two sections. It has been found out that there is no significant difference between the mean total score related to the problems in organization and behavior management faced by pre-school teachers participated in the study according to their age, working duration at the institution and age group they work with, but there is a statistically significant difference according to education level, years of service, type of school and number of children they work with.
Effects of Classroom Management Profiles of Pre-School Teachers on Social Skills and Problem Behaviors of Children
şermin metin, Şule Kavak
This research was conducted to determine the classroom management profile of preschool teachers and to examine the influence of teachers' classroom management profiles on children's social skills and problem behaviors. The research was carried out in 2015-2016 educational year with teachers working inkindergartens affiliated to Provincial Directorate of National Education in Gaziantep province center and children in their classes. The study group consists of 485 children and 45 teachers who participated the study voluntarily and were chosen from 15 preschools by simple random sampling method. "General Information Form" was prepared to determine the demographic characteristics of teachers and children. The data related to the classroom management profiles of the teachers were collected by "Classroom Management Profile Inventory" developed by Kris (1996a) and adapted to Turkish by Ekici (2004). The data related to the social skills and problem behaviors of children were collected by ''Pre-school and Early Childhood Behavior Scale'' developed by Merril (1994) and adapted to Turkish by Özbey and Alisinanoğlu (2009). According to the findings, it has been determined that the problem behaviors increase as the social skills scores of the children increase. While the relationship between the age of the teachers and the Unrestricted and Indifferent Classroom Management Profiles was found to be significant, it was seen that there was no ethics on the classroom management of the learning situation. There was no significant relationship between the gender of the children participating in the study, the preschool education status of the children, the social skills and problem behaviors of the children, and the class management profiles of the teachers.
Theory and Practice in Child Development
Validity and reliability study of classroom management strategies scale: CMSS-preschool teacher form
Ayse Ozturk Samur
The aim of this study is to develop a measurement tool to determine the strategies used by preschool teachers in classroom management practices and to identify its validity and reliability. The research is in the survey model and its sample includes 580 preschool teachers working in public and private preschool throughout Turkey. An item pool was created by examining the literature and other scales related to classroom management. These items were sent to six experts working on the subject and the scale was finalized with 89 items. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was utilized to test the construct validity. The results of the exploratory factor analysis revealed that 89 items in the scale consist of three main dimensions, namely Preventive Strategies, Supporting Strategies and Strategies for the Problem, and thirteen sub-dimensions. The Preventive Strategies Dimension consists of Program and Routines, Transitions between Activities, Organizing the Classroom Environment,...
Journal of Studies in Education
The Importance of Knowledge about the Preschool Curriculum in Terms of Preschool Administrators’ Instructional Leadership Practices
sevilay şahin
The purpose of the present study was to unearth the importance of school administrators’ knowledge about thepreschool curriculum in terms of displaying instructional leadership behaviors in the kindergartens and primary schools with preschool classes. The study group in the research consisted of 20 preschool teachers and 10 preschool administrators working in the schools tied to the Ministry of National Education in Kilis province, chosen via the purposeful sampling technique. Interviews were conducted with the participants to collect the data. The data were then content-analyzed. The results revealed that primary school administrators did not have adequate knowledge about the preschool curriculum and could not display instructional leadership behaviors; however, preschool administrators had, comparatively, adequate knowledge about the curriculum and were more successful in terms of displaying instructional leadership behaviors. Drawing on this point, it may be suggested that knowle...
Jurnal Aplikasi IPTEK Indonesia
Kindergarten principal leadership and academic supervision of supervisors as contributing factors to kindergarten teacher performance
2021 •
Febri Putra
Research based on phenomena that show a decline in teacher performance. The purpose of this study was to describe the contribution of kindergarten principal leadership and academic supervision to performing kindergarten teachers. This type of research is quantitative, with a descriptive correlational approach. The population in this study were kindergarten teachers, amounting to 43 people. Respondents in this study amounted to 43 people. The instrument used is a Likert model scale and a questionnaire about teacher performance, the leadership of the kindergarten principal, and the academic supervision of the education unit supervisor. Test the validity using the product moment correlation. For the reliability test using Cronbach’s alpha. The requirements analysis tests carried out are; normality test, linearity test and multicollinearity test. The data analysis technique used simple regression and multiple regression. The results showed that; 1) there is a contribution from the leade...
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRESCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS’ LEADERSHIP STYLES AND SCHOOL CULTURE
Türker Sezer, Kazım Biber
This is a survey study which aims to determine whether there is a relationship between preschool administrators’ leadership styles and school culture. The study sample consisted of 188 randomly selected preschool teachers working in state and private preschools located in the Kadıköy, Ümraniye, Maltepe, Kartal, Fatih, Beşiktaş and Bakırköy districts of Istanbul during the academic year of 2008-2009. For data collection, “The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire 5 – x short (MLQ)” was used to determine the leadership behaviours of preschool administrators and the School Culture Survey was applied to determine school culture. The data were analyzed by using Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient on the SPSS program. The results revealed a statistically significant and positive relationship between preschool administrators’ leadership styles and school culture in all subdimensions.
International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research
Leadership Strategies In Good School Governance Early Childhood Education Unit
2019 •
luluk elyana
Early childhood education is a strong foundation in efforts to prepare young people for academic competition at the next level. The research aims to analyze the factors of leadership that be a factor deciding the application of good school governance. The research method used is quantitative with a survey approach using a questionnaire given to respondents to uncover the influence of leadership on good school governance. The results showed that the higher the leadership role, the greater the success factors of good school governance. This was proven by the results of statistical tests using AMOS software, which showed a standardized estimated parameter value of 0.335; value standard error (SE) of 0.089; the value of the critical ratio (CR) of 3.715 with the value of probabilitas by ***) <0.001. By using a significance level α = 0.05, it can be concluded that there is strong empirical evidence to state that the better the leadership, the better Good School Governance. This researc...
Practices and Challenges of Preschool Leadership and Management in Public and Private Kindergarten in Jijiga City Administrations
2017 •
Yigzaw Haile
This study aimed at examining the practices and challenges of Leadership and management in the Public and Private Kindergartens of Jijiga City Administration. To this end, a mixed research design was used and questionnaire, interview and FGD were used to collect data for the study. 8 Public „O‟ class (preschool) and 12 private kindergartens were purposely and randomly selected respectively. All teachers (eighty-two preschool teachers) responded to the questionnaires. In depth semi structured interview were conducted with 4 public and 8 private kindergarten Preschool directors, Ethiopian Somali Regional Education Bureau‟s Planning Department Head and Education Officer at the City Education office level respectively. In addition, 4 Focus Groups Discussion (2 each in Public and Private Preschools) were conduct with a total of 28 participants (8 PTA members, 16 preschool teachers and 4 Preschool directors). Percentage and thematic analysis were used to analyze quantitative and qualitati...
Developing a Classroom Management Skills Inventory for Preschool Teachers and the Correlation of Preschool Teachers’ Classroom Management Skills with Different Variables
Caglayan Dincer
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to develop a measurement tool for determining preschool teachers’ classroom management skills according to their own perceptions and to evaluate preschool teachers’ classroom management skills based on different variables. 520 teachers participated in the inventory development process and the data from 413 teachers was taken into consideration for the analysis. This study followed descriptive research design in that it compared teachers’ classroom management scores with different variables. According to the results, our inventory was found as a reliable and valid measurement tool for investigating preschool teachers’ classroom management skills. In addition, the results indicate that there is no significant difference in preschool teachers’ classroom management skills according to level of education, having assistant personnel in the classroom and working hours whereas there is a significant difference according to teachers’ age, type of educational institutions that teachers are graduated from, teaching experience, working status, class size and children’s age.
