Does Public Leadership Improve School Effectiveness through Strengthening Teacher Professionalism?

Abstract

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate themediating role of teacher professionalism in therelationship between public leadership behaviours ofadministrators in public schools and schooleffectiveness.Method: The present study was designed in acorrelational research model and conducted with 482teachers working in public schools. Simple randomsampling was used in this study. The data werecollected using Public Leadership Scale, SchoolEffectiveness Index and Teacher ProfessionalismScale. With this regard, the mediator role of teacherprofessionalism in the relationship between publicleadership and school effectiveness was determinedusing path analysis.Findings: The results of the study indicated that public leadership has a direct and indirectimpact on school effectiveness by enhancing teacher professionalism.Implications for Research and Practice: Given those school principals working at publicschools raise awareness of the concepts brought about the new understanding of publicmanagement is considered necessary, teacher professionalism should be contributed withinthe framework of public leadership, and school effectiveness should be sustained.