The Reality of School Principals’ Methods in the Governmental Secondary Schools of the Northern Governorates and its Relationship to the Creative Administration from the Point of View of Teachers and Principals

Abstract

The aim of this study is to explore the reality of school principals’ methods in the governmental secondary schools of the Northern Governorates and its relationship to the creative administration from the point of view of teachers and and principals. The study adopted the correlative descriptive approach, and a stratified random sample was selected, which included (374) teachers in (Nablus, Ramallah and Al-Birah, and Hebron) directorates. Also (20) school principals’, with whom an interview is conducted, for the purposes of obtaining qualitative data to enrich the results of the quantitative study. Results show the reality of school pricipals’ methods among government secondary school principals of the Northern Governorates varied so “administration by objectives” ranked first, with an average of (4.14), and a high level, while “authoritarian administration” ranked last, with an average of (3.17), the results of the interview show that 80% of the principals use many different methods of innovation and development, as they involve teachers in planning, and innovative ways of solving problems, the results show the level of creative administration among school principals’ in the governmental secondary schools of the Northern Governorates from teachers perspectives is high, with average (3.89). The results of the interview also show that 70% of principals are keen on balancing the requirements of school work with the needs of teachers, working to meet their needs and helping them determine work priorities, taking into consideration rationality in evaluating teachers’ performance. The results of the study also show that, there are no statistically significant differences in the average of the reality of school principals’ methods in the governmental secondary schools of the Northern Governorates according to the variables (directorate, gender, and qualification level), the presence of statistically significant differences according to the variable (years of experience). The results also indicat that, there are no statistically significant differences in the averages of creative administration among school principals’ in the governmental secondary schools of the northern governorates according to: (directorate, gender, and qualification level), and the presence of statistically significant differences according to the variable (years of experience). The results also indicate that, there is a positive statistically significant correlation between the reality of school principals’ "objectives", "democratic", "correspondence" and administrative creativity, also, there is a negative statistically significant correlation between "authoritarian method", and administrative creativity.