Cora Wood

Publication Date

11-1989

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

M.D. Richardson, H.D. Cline, W.L. Traugot

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Degree Program

Educational Leadership

Degree Type

Specialist in Education

Abstract

During the 1988-1989 school year, teachers, Curriculum and Instruction Leaders, and administrators from the Elizabethtown Independent Schools (Elizabethtown, KY) were asked to contribute their initial opinions and expectations of their district's newly implemented Curriculum and Instructional Leader Program. This innovative plan, developed by the superintendent and the instructional supervisor of the Elizabethtown Independent Schools, was designed to improve instruction and facilitate change through collegial leadership. The researcher utilized questionnaires as an instrument to collect the prescribed data and distributed them to each of participants during October, 1988, and on May 1, 1989.

Statistical analysis on the data collected from these questionnaires revealed that most of the responding teachers and all of the principals (a) believed the Curriculum and Instructional Leaders had demonstrated leadership and (b) valued/trusted the professional counsel of their Curriculum and Instructional Leaders with regard to instruction. In addition, over one-half of the responding teachers and almost all of the principals believed teachers had received more instructional assistance as a result of the Curriculum and Instructional Leader Program.

The questionnaires also indicated that most of the responding teachers and all of the principals believed collegiality would enhance effective instruction. Furthermore, most of the responding teachers indicated that they would appreciate additional professional collaboration. For most of the principals, successfully implementing the Curriculum and Instructional Leader Program was an important part of the vision for their school.

Over three-fifths of the responding teachers, all of the Curriculum and Instructional Leaders, and all but one of the principals believed that the Curriculum and Instructional Leader Program would assist in improving instruction, introducing more innovative curricula, and developing more effective schools.

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Educational Administration and Supervision | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Leadership | Elementary and Middle and Secondary Education Administration

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