Palestinian Secondary Public Schools’ Principals’ Commitment Degree to Professional Ethics from their Teachers’ Perspectives

drayyoub's picture
Type: 
Thesis
Year: 
2009
Students: 
Saja Ahmad Mahmoud Yahyia
AttachmentSize
Palestinian Secondary Public Schools’ Principals’ Commitment Degree to Professional Ethics from their Teachers’ Perspectives1.09 MB
Abstract: 

This study aims at identifying the degree of Palestinian secondary schools’ principals’ commitment to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective, according to gender, qualifications , working years and the directorate location. The study population was (12056) ,consisted of all secondary governmental schoolteachers in the west bank during the first semester of (2009/2010). To achieve the study’s goals, a stratified random sample of(1349)teachers(=11% of the whole population)was selected , a questionnaire of (64) items was built and distributed covering all public secondary schools in the west bank. The researcher used the averages, standard deviation, frequencies, independent T- test Samples), One Way ANOVA) and Tukey test.The study was reliable. - The average of Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective was high (4.15-4.41), whereas ,the overall average of the study’s seven domains was (4.29). - The domains order of the Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective was as follows: The principal’s ethics towards his job, followed by his ethics towards homeland, then comes towards learners, followed his ethics towards local community , after that , the domain of his ethics towards himself.The last domain is the principal’s ethics towards teachers. -There were significant differences at (α=0.05) in Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective due to gender variable leaning towards male teachers, and to working years variable leaning towards (1-5) category, and for the sake of the directorate location variable leaning towards the following directorates sorted in descending order: Tubas, Qabatya, Qalqilia, Huwwara , and Tulkarm. - There were no significant differences at (α=0.05) in Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective due to qualifications. Recommendations: The researcher put a set of recommendations in the light of the study’s outcomes such as: - It is recommended that the Ministry of Education give the teachers a chance to evaluate their principals which may strengthen the ties between them. - Holding training courses addressing teachers to increase awareness pertaining the importance of educational research in promoting schools and educational services in a way to reach the best situations for both learners andstaff.