A Study of Teachers’ Perception on the Leadership Styles for School’s Effectiveness

This study was an attempt to enquire academic background of the leaders, style of leadership adopted in making the schools effective by the teachers, skills and techniques related with supervision, coordination, cooperation and monitoring the responsibilities assigned to their co-educators in the achievement and success of the schools, approaches to put school management alert to meet the challenges of modern professions, the capabilities of their leadership in managing the administration and affairs of the school to meet the demands of the changing needs of the society, leaderships role in cooperation with community, government and non-government agencies concerned with the development of education and obtained suggestions from the teachers for guidance of other schools at secondary level to make them effective. The objectives of this research were to analyse the variables of school effectiveness in relation to the school’s leadership in the public and private sector secondary schools and leadership styles of the teachers of the public and private sector secondary schools in making their schools effective. Questionnaire was adopted as a tool for data collection which holds quantitative nature.By studying the school effectiveness based on different leadership styles of the principals, it was hoped that the data collected would help schools leaders develop a better implementation plan for enhancing the effectiveness of their schools within the public and private secondary system. To test the hypothesis, fifty items were formulated. A total of 150 participants on equal distribution were taken for the study. The hypotheses were tested using Chi-Square value through SPSS