英文摘要 |
The study aims to investigate the outstanding principals’ leadership behaviors of junior high schools of Taipei City and analyze their leadership concepts and actions, the difficulties and challenges they faced, and the strategies they used to deal with the plights. The study then inducts the successful paradigms of the outstanding principle leadership. To achieve the goals above, the researcher applies the method of qualitative interview research to this study. Totally four interviewees are in this study, including two outstanding principles who have received the award of Principals of Excellent Leadership from Ministry of Education, and two school-related personnel who have collaborated with the two principles respectively. Through interviews and supplementing with literature review to collect, analyze, and organize related information, the researcher conducts suggestions based on the research results for other principles and associated units to use as references. The results from this research are shown as followed. 1.Outstanding principals create the value in life from educational behaviors based on student-centered concept. 2.Outstanding principals would set direction for school vision, reach consensus as a team, pass on the value of education, and achieve school vision. 3.Outstanding principals would support and encourage school members, cultivate talented people, and create warm and reliable atmosphere at campus. 4.Outstanding principals would lead the education reformation by establishing supportive work division and providing distributed leadership to reinforce efficiency of school operation. 5.Outstanding principals would enrich the connotation of learning and ensure teaching quality by offering support and feedback systems for curriculum and teaching. 6.Outstanding principals would build strategic alliance to gain educational resource, establish brand for school, and market school actively. 7. Outstanding principal’s leadership difficulties and challenges lie in the uneasiness of setting team visions together, the impact brought by the dropping of birth rate, and the multi-expectation on stakeholders. 8. Outstanding principals would establish the basis for school leadership with sufficient knowledge and respond to expectations of school stakeholders with open mind and empathy. 9. Outstanding principals would create school culture based on reliability as the orientation of reformation and build school atmosphere that is co-honored to build vision and action together. 10. Outstanding principals would set developing process for school and transform the plight and challenge by providing Systems Thinking and action practice, thus to operate the school sustainably. |