Teachers’ Readiness to be Leaders and its Relationship with Students’ Engagement in the Classroom
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 4
Abstract
This study aims to examine the relationship between teachers’ to be leaders and pupils’ engagement in the classroom. A total of 142 primary school teachers are chosen as respondents and questionnaire set is used as the instrument to collect data. The collected data are analysed by using descriptive statistics. The findings show that the level of teachers’ readiness to become leaders and the pupils’ engagement is relatively high with means score value for each is 4.02 and 4.05 respectively. The result of the t-test analysis provides indication that there is a significant mean difference of teachers’’ willingness to become leaders based on gender; whereby, female teachers are more willing to become leaders compare to the male teachers. The findings of the correlations test also show that there is a positive and significant relationship between the teachers’ readiness to become leaders factor and pupils’ engagement in the classroom factor. In terms of implications, this study provides a suggestion that teachers should be prepared to be leaders to improve pupils’ engagement in the classroom. Hence, teachers training session must embed leadership elements in the education structure in the effort to build knowledge, skill and confidence to lead while in teaching.
Authors and Affiliations
Hamidah Yusof, Kumutha Kanvidi, Norasibah Abdul Jalil, Mohd Asri Mohd Noor, Mahaliza Mansor
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- DOI 10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i4/4128
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