Abstract: Recent years have seen the school education and management environment become increasingly complex that require high demands for school leaders. Researchers in the field of educational leadership have suggested that emotional intelligence of school leaders will have positive influence over the school operation. The paper has made an effort in critically reflecting a high school headteacher’s practice of school cultural change through the application of emotional intelligence. The importance of the research lies in the fact that school culture strongly correlates to school improvement, and it is inevitable to change school culture when it plays the negative effects to the school. Utilization of emotional intelligence in the management of cultural change in the high school in China will be discussed in depth, and implications as well as recommendations will be provided.Abstract: Recent years have seen the school education and management environment become increasingly complex that require high demands for school leaders. Researchers in the field of educational leadership have suggested that emotional intelligence of school leaders will have positive influence over the school operation. The paper has made an effort in critic...Show More
Abstract: The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between teacher motivation and teaching satisfaction in Islamic Private schools in Pattani, Thailand. This study used questionnaire to collect data from 5 target schools with 212 teachers. The test of significance for multiple regression analysis was primarily performed at the probability level of p< 0.05. Teacher motivation was positively and moderately related to the all five dimensions of teaching satisfaction, namely, personal teaching satisfaction, teaching satisfaction with pay, teaching satisfaction with school polices, teaching satisfaction with interpersonal relations and teaching satisfaction with career development. The results for multiple regression revealed that three out of five predictors of teaching satisfaction were positively statistically with teacher motivation across samples, namely, personal teaching satisfaction, teaching satisfaction with pay and teaching satisfaction with career development. The best predictor was personal teaching satisfaction. The recommendation for this study was school leaders and principals should take actions or strategies to increase teachers’ motivation and satisfaction level to improve their work with more salary and support more school facilities. The significant relationship showed that the way to motivated teachers is to satisfied them in their personal demands, the pay and increase more professional training.Abstract: The purpose of this research was to explore the relationship between teacher motivation and teaching satisfaction in Islamic Private schools in Pattani, Thailand. This study used questionnaire to collect data from 5 target schools with 212 teachers. The test of significance for multiple regression analysis was primarily performed at the probability...Show More
