Background to the study
The school head plays a significant role principally in answerability to erudition outcomes. This is interior and exterior responsibility for the entire yield of an instructive organization or training center and is never concerned about the outcome of individual learners. The quality assurance systems of training centers and organizations are a significant basis of data concerning the expansion of superior learning. The school managers have a key task in apprehending such structures. Educational executives are accountable for their workforce guidelines and for educating new tutors. These responsibilities are frequently transferred to school heads (Bottery, 2001). The training centers for primary and secondary school teachers are making advancements in the field by conducting professional assessments.
Appraisal interrogations, especially those associated with delineation of primary wage and secondary responsibilities, are not yet widespread in all training centers. In the Phoenix region, several developments in the field of integral staff strategy are palpable. The mindset of all those concerned about IPB demonstrates a strong succession. When some acts were amended, the professionalization of the workforce was mentioned. In the quality assurance strategy, the leadership of any educational facility is in charge of exposing information as regards how it plans to preserve the competencies of its workforce (Bolman, & Deal, 1997). Agreements between employers and employees relating to school matters are made based on this principle. Fists year teachers should be made to understand that quality of education is the success of any training institution.
Literature Review
Literature review refers to what other people have formulated in the field of educational leadership. In this research, the canvasser will also look at theories that talk about educational leadership. Existing literature shows that there has been a global interest in leadership and management. This is because of its projected significance in developing and sustaining successful schools and systems of education. Since various theories concerning leadership in education exist, scholars have not have been able to agree on a single leadership theory. In this research, a number of theories will be analyzed. The theories explain how school heads could possibly influence first-year teachers to deliver high standards.
Conceptual literature is related to what other scholars have analyzed in the field of educational leadership. Bush (2003) argues that raising awareness as regards alternative approaches to educational leadership is important since it offers solutions to day-to-day problems. Bush continues to posit that school heads are influenced by politicians and other societal leaders to offer strong leadership in schools. School heads prefer some models to others mainly because of societal influence. Leithwood, Jantzi, and Steinbach (1999) explained managerial leadership as the focus of leaders, which is usually put on tasks, responsibilities, and behaviors. The scholar argues that in case a leader plays his or her role faithfully, an organization would succeed in mentoring other members. For this to happen, leaders must conduct themselves rationally meaning that official rules must be observed always. On his side, Caldwell posited that school heads should be able to come up with and implement a cyclical process that entails seven functions. These functions include setting the objectives of an organization, identifying the most pressing needs, accomplishing some tasks first, coming up with strategies, budgeting, executing tasks, and finally conducting an appraisal. This would put the first-year teachers on track.
Transformational leadership is another model that should be employed by school heads in the Phoenix region to mentor first-year teachers in their quest for success. Bush (2003) associated his three leadership archetypes with his collegial management theory. According to him, transformational leadership entails the commitments and capabilities of organizational workers.
Data Collection
Data will be collected through interview guides. Data analysis in qualitative research starts with the classification of topics from unprocessed data, a procedure occasionally termed open coding (Strauss, & Corbin, 1990). In open coding, the canvasser should categorize and tentatively name the theoretical types into which the occurrences experimented will be clustered. The aim is to generate explanatory and multi-dimensional classes, which form an introductory framework for examination. Expressions, idioms, or actions that seem to be alike can be clustered into the same class. As unprocessed information is split into convenient units, the investigator should as well formulate an audit trail, which is specifically a method for classifying data units according to correspondents and perspectives.
The subsequent phase of the analysis entails a review of classes in order to establish how they are connected. It is an intricate process at times referred to as axial coding (Strauss, & Corbin, 1990). During axial coding, the canvasser is supposed to construct a theoretical model and establish whether adequate data is available to support clarification of results (Strauss, & Corbin, 1990).
Data Analysis
The researcher will analyze data using software referred to as NVivo. NVivo augments some features of the qualitative study process by facilitating data recording, systematization, and text coding. It further increases the methodical connection between texts and emerging hypothetical models. The software permits canvassers to record interpretations straight into Nivo or to convey them into the program. Once the information has been ascribed or brought in, codes can be allocated to texts to start systematizing and handling information. Once the formation of a folder comprising of texts with allied codes, researchers’ remarks, and interpretations is over, the software permits easy institution and repossession of pieces of texts concurrent to ordinary codes or models.
Consecutively, this permits the study to investigate prototypes in collected data and starts to conceptualize the results (Blank, 2004). The data can be clustered and prearranged using diverse techniques that help the study in depicting key conclusions. The NVivo software consists of a variety of equipment for presenting logical relationships between coded texts.
References
Blank, G. (2004). Teaching qualitative data analysis to graduate students. Social Science Computer Review, 22(2), 187-196.
Bolman, L., & Deal, T. (1997). Reframing Organizations: artistry, choice and leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Bottery, M. (2001). Globalization and the UK competition state: no room for transformational leadership in education? School Leadership and Management, 21(1).
Bush, T. (2003). Theories of Educational Management. London: Sage.
Leithwood, K., Jantzi, D., & Steinbach, R. (1999). Changing Leadership for Changing Times. Buckingham: Open University Press.
Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1990). Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.