KEPIMPINAN INSTRUKSIONAL DAN PELAKSANAAN PENYELIAAN OLEH GURU BESAR SEKOLAH TAMIL DI NEGERI JOHOR

Abstract

The Ministry of Education Malaysia has called on school leaders to practise instructional leadership as one of the models in leading schools in the country. Recognising this importance, an analysis of instructional leadership in teacher supervision practised by Tamil school headmasters in Johor was done. A study was conducted to analyse instructional leadership. The conceptual framework used in this study is based on a combination of the Hallinger and Murphy (1985) models and the Hallinger Model (2000) for the scope of instructional leadership, while for the scope of supervision, the study was carried out with a combination of two models, namely the Teacher Teaching Supervision Behaviour Process Model by John T. Lovell (1978) and the Stoner and Wenkel Operating System Model (1985). This study was designed by quantitative method. A modified 50-item questionnaire based on the Principal Instructional Rating Scale (PIMRS) by Philip Hallinger (2000, 2011) was used to measure the instructional leadership of headmasters. Meanwhile, another 50 questionnaire items were used to implement teacher supervision in the classroom, which was modified based on a questionnaire set built by Ahmad Kamal (2016). Three hundred teachers from Tamil schools throughout the state of Johor were involved in obtaining quantitative data in the form of descriptive statistics and inferences using SPSS software. The data was analysed using descriptive statistics such as mean scores and standard deviations. The findings showed no significant difference in the level of instructional leadership or the implementation of headmaster supervision in Tamil schools. Based on the study's implications, the Ministry of Education in Malaysia should prioritise a balanced development of the teaching profession and strengthen the quality of headmaster leadership and supervision, adapting to current educational developments.