A Study on Relationships among Elementary School Principals’ Distributed Leadership, Teachers’ Innovative Instruction and Teachers’ Well-Being: Taoyuan County as an Example

碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 99 === Abstract This study investigates the current situation, different background variables effecting, forecast and relationships of principals’ distributed leadership, teachers’ innovative instruction and teachers’ well-being of Taoyuan County. According to “principals’...

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Main Authors: Hui-Xuan Wang, 王惠萱
Other Authors: Chin-Lin Yang
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87902831705581946087
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Summary:碩士 === 中原大學 === 教育研究所 === 99 === Abstract This study investigates the current situation, different background variables effecting, forecast and relationships of principals’ distributed leadership, teachers’ innovative instruction and teachers’ well-being of Taoyuan County. According to “principals’ distributed leadership, teachers’ innovative instruction and teachers’ well-being”, based in Taoyuan County using stratified random sampling of 915 teachers from 76 schools. Receiving back 835 valid ones after the elimination of 15 invalid ones. The valid response rate is 96.9%. All data collected were analyzed by the methods of descriptive statistics, independent -test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, canonical correlation and SEM etc. The conclusions are as follows: 1. The highest dimension of elementary school principals’ distributed leadership is “trust school culture”, the lowest dimension is “Clear prospect goal”; the highest dimension of teachers’ innovative instruction is “creative teaching content”, the lowest dimension is “diversification teaching assement ”; the highest dimension of teachers’ well-being is “satisfaction of life”, the lowest dimension is “state of health”. 2. Significant differences were found partly in the elementary school teachers’ perception of principals’ distributed leadership, given the consideration of teachers’ demographic variations: sex, age, administrative duties,children quantity and school scale. 3. Significant differences were found partly in the elementary school teachers’ perception of teachers’ innovative instruction,given the consideration of teachers’ demographic variations:, age, administrative duties,marriage state and children quantity. 4. Significant differences were found partly in the elementary school teachers’ perception of teachers’ well-being , given the consideration of teachers’ demographic variations: sex, age, administrative duties,and marriage state. 5. There is a high positive correlation from principals’ distributed leadership, teachers’ innovative instruction and teachers’ well-being. 6. The best forecasting of the dimensions of teachers’ well-being is “ creative teaching idea”. 7. Teachers’ innovative instruction is a moderate variable between some dimension of principals’ distributed leadership and teachers’ well-being. According to the results above, offering suggests as follows: 1. To educational administrations: During the principal selection, training certificates and inspection emphasize distributed leadership courses and content, meanwhile evaluation into the school; To provide some course about how distributed leadership works. 2. To principals: Communicate with teachers in right time; set job rotation system; give teachers more chance to practice leadership; to increase communication with community persons. 3. To teachers: Encourage teachers in graduate education and learning; increase teachers helping and talking to each other. 4. To future research: (1) Expanding the researching area. (2) Through the depth interviews, qualitative research and advanced statistical methods to quantify the results and do more dimensions test for interaction. (3) Increase the process of experts’ validity and the relevance of researching tools, make the research results better.