Leadership Style of Principal to Increase Teacher’s Professionality (original) (raw)

2021, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Research of Educational Administration and Management (ICREAM 2020)

Goal of this research is to examine the leadership style of the principal in improving the professional competence of MI teachers in UPTD East Peurelak region, East Aceh Regency. This study applied a qualitative descriptive method. The subject of this study was determined by using purposive sampling. It included fifteen informants for completing this research. In order to collect data, researcher conducted interviews, observation, and documentation. The result showed: 1) principal applied situational leadership method, indicator acts as telling the division of assignment based on academic qualification, participating teachers in discussion forum, selling to give reward for the competent teachers, delegating to make decision for importance in the school; 2) principal acts to give chance for teachers for self-development by attending a training, seminar, KKG, permitting for continuing study; 3) as a strategy, principal oblige teachers to attend a computer course and supervision program, to evaluate students' learning outcomes, and take part in training of usage in online report submission; 4) while, the principal faces some obstacles to apply this method, such as, teachers' difficulty to communicate, lack of IT mastery, deficiency of teachers' awareness to make an effective learning environment.