Headmasters’ Instructional Leadership and its Relationship with Teachers Performance

The Ministry of Education’s continuous effort in ensuring the success of education transformation requires the commitment of headmasters with instructional leadership qualities and high performing teachers. The role of instructional leadership is vital and can be a determinant of excellence and achievement of the desired education. There were three objectives of this study: (1) to identify the level of instructional leadership practice by the headmaster; (2) to identify the level of performance of the teachers; and (3) to identify the relationship between the level of instructional leadership practice and teacher performance. This study is a descriptive research using survey design involving 92 teachers of a National Primary School (Tamil) (SJKT) in Jasin, Melaka, Malaysia. The instrument was a questionnaire on teacher leadership instructional styles and teacher performance. The result showed that the level of instructional leadership of the headmasters and the level of performance of the teachers were high and there was a significant relationship between the headmaster instructional leadership practice and the performance of the teachers. Based on the findings of the study, several suggestions were proposed for the purpose of further improving the instructional leadership of the headmasters and the performance of the teachers in the future. El esfuerzo continuo del Ministerio de Educación para garantizar el éxito de la transformación educativa requiere el compromiso de los directores con cualidades de liderazgo instructivo y maestros de alto rendimiento. El papel del liderazgo educativo es vital y puede ser un determinante de la excelencia y el logro de la educación deseada. Había tres objetivos de este estudio: (1) identificar el nivel de práctica de liderazgo instructivo por parte del director; (2) identificar el nivel de desempeño de los docentes; y (3) identificar la relación entre el nivel de práctica de liderazgo instructivo y el desempeño del maestro. Este estudio es una investigación descriptiva que utiliza el diseño de la encuesta con 92 maestros de una Escuela Primaria Nacional (Tamil) (SJKT) en Jasin, Melaka, Malasia. El instrumento era un cuestionario sobre estilos de instrucción de liderazgo docente y desempeño docente. El resultado mostró que el nivel de liderazgo de instrucción de los directores y el nivel de desempeño de los maestros eran altos y que había una relación significativa entre la práctica de liderazgo de instrucción del directo