HEAD TEACHER’S BELIEFS AND PRACTICES ABOUT EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AT SECONDARY LEVEL

Abstract

Leadership is a leader's action towards specific goals. Effective school leadership is crucial to a school's success. The head teacher requires integrative quality education management skills and the vitality of teachers, students, and parents to achieve shared educational goals. The basic purpose of the current study was to investigate head teachers' beliefs and practices about effective learning environments at the secondary level. They used a quantitative research approach and descriptive study in nature. A survey research design was employed. The population of the study was all the head teachers at secondary schools in Punjab in which 120 head teachers were selected from four districts through simple random sampling. For the collection of data, a questionnaire was used having two portions one for measuring their beliefs and a second for measuring head teacher practices about effective learning environment. Data was analyzed through SPSS by deploying multiple tests. The result shows that no difference exists between head teachers' beliefs and practices on gender bases and experiences, but a significant difference existed in their beliefs and practices on district bases. It was concluded that head teachers believed as well as practicing for an effective learning environment, but more efforts are required on district basis.