Determining the Challenges Encountered by Lian District Principals in Supervision: Input for a Proposed Action Plan

Abstract

Principals are considered as the managers or supervisors in various schools and school principals’ leadership is critical for school effectiveness and performance at many levels. Therefore, it is imperative to develop strategies that can provide the motivation for appropriate policy changes, highlight health concerns, and generate knowledge that can be used to support principals’ occupational health and well-being. This study aims to support school principals of Lian District and enhance their job performance through determining the challenges and issues they encountered in supervision. It is important to consider various factors that affect their performance as leaders and managers of the school as this may determine the extent to which they are able to contribute effectively to improving student achievement and school performance. It includes survey of the challenges and issues encountered by the principals in terms of relation to teachers, external challenges, recognition and growth and other issues concerning supervision. The researcher made use of descriptive-quantitative and qualitative research design for the study. The online survey technique using Google Forms was used as a data collection tool. The statistical treatments that used in this study were mean, ranking, frequency, and percentage. As a result, in terms of challenges encountered in relation to teachers, teacher resistance to change received the highest mean from the respondents. Then, in external challenges pressure in adapting to new programs becomes the first in the rank. Likewise, few opportunities for them to learn and grow are the highest challenges in recognition and growth of the principals. Also, there are three major themes of issues and challenges they encountered, namely: teacher resistance to change, overlapping of schedules and conduct of post conferences. A proposed action plan was made by the researcher to better support the issues and challenges encountered by Lian district principals.