ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TOWARDS THE ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS OF HEADMASTERS IN VISAKHAPATNAM DISTRICT

A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning environment for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. School education aims at developing cognitive abilities and life skills among the students. The Headmaster, as the educational leader, holds the key position in the school. The Head of the institution occupies the central position in the school system and all the activities of the school revolve around him. An efficient system of school management, to a great extent, depends upon the efficiency of the school heads. The Heads of the schools should possess the administrative skills and the abilities to successfully plan, organize, co-ordinate, control and initiate actions to aid the effective management of schools. The present study is an attempt to know the attitude of secondary school teachers towards the administrative skills of Headmasters in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh. The researchers used a well developed and standardized questionnaire as the tool for collection of data from a sample of 500 teachers (280 Male and 220 Female) selected from 100 secondary schools from Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh using Stratified Random Sampling technique. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were used for analysis of data. The findings of the study revealed that the demographic variables – Gender, Age, Teaching Experience, Type of school management and Location of the institution have no influence on the attitude of secondary school teachers towards the administrative skills of Headmasters. The study suggests that the teachers working in secondary schools should share the administrative responsibilities of the Headmasters in creating a healthy working environment in schools; and thereby improve student performance in secondary schools.