Management and the Development of Educational Personnel
The activities “communicating and keeping up to date with the teacher association” and “welcoming newly employed teachers and newcomers effectively” are considered “very important” by the largest percentage of participant headmasters. They also consider the activities “evaluating teachers’ work” and “facilitating teachers’ professional development” “important.” It is remarkable to notice that the activities “evaluating teachers’ work” and “facilitating teachers’ professional development” appear to be of minor importance for a considerable percentage of survey participants (29.6% and 31.9% for the above activities, resp.).
A statistical significance is found in relation to the various types of training of headmasters regarding the activities-variables “observing teachers’ work” (, ) and “welcoming newly employed teachers and newcomers effectively” (, ). The headmasters who have six-month training consider the above activities very important (Mean Rank = 9.50 & 11.00, resp.). Descriptive statistics for this analysis are presented in Table 3.