Title: PARADIGM SHIFT IN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: THRIVING ON THE CHALLENGES IN THE POST PANDEMIC ERA
Author:
Annavi M. Maravilla
Abstract:
The Corona virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, as the most crucial global health crisis of the century, has put forward challenges to meet in almost every sector of the society, including the education sector. This descriptive-quantitative research examined the paradigm shift in school leadership in the new normal of Legazpi City Division, utilized a 4-point Likert scale questionnaire involving the public-school heads, assistant principal, and teachers. The best practices include encouraging and monitoring teachers. It highlights the use of appropriate scoring tools; aligned performance tasks to the MELCs; and flexible assessments. But capacitating the teachers on integrative assessment was least evident. Managerial leadership prioritized the formation of systematic approach in the planning, preparing, and monitoring teachers; teacher’s mental health was least monitored. Engaging parents embraced orientation of modalities; communication; and motivation. However, use of research-based data was least considered. There was no significant relationship between school heads’ instructional leadership and students’ learning outcomes but a strong significant relationship between managerial leadership and teachers’ performance was revealed. This paper achieved the following: paradigm shift in school leadership on instruction and management of human and school resources amidst challenges was determined; the Maravilla’s Paradigm Shift of Management Amidst Challenges Theory was formulated; and the “Instructional and Managerial Leadership Training Workshop for School Heads” was proposed.
Keywords: Instructional Leadership, post pandemic era, monitoring of learning assessment of learning, managerial leadership.
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