INVESTIGATION OF DIRECTORS’ LEADERSHIP ROLE IN TEACHERS’ CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Career is a stepwise and continuous progression of a person and his/her gaining experience and skills in any profession through years s/he can work (Aytaç 1997, 17). As for career development, it handles career activities systematically and within a formal structure (Erdoğmuş 2003, 16). With career development activities, the amount and quality of the goods and services produced by the organization increase, organizations own more skilled labor, accidents decrease in number and energy consumption is economized, positive working relations improve, time loss is prevented, workers’ morale is boosted and job satisfaction is maximized. (Baron 1989, 79; Cited: Çınkır 2003, 86-87: Başaran 1992, 23). Therefore, personal development efforts of workers must be supported. Headmasters as well must provide teachers with all kinds of opportunity for their career development. The fact that teachers be in a continuous development process is important, not only for a vocational aspect, but also for being useful for students and institution. In this respect, taking steps for providing teachers’ career development continually and making necessary arrangements are among substantial duties of headmasters. In this context, the aim of the study is to determine to what extent headmasters perform their leadership role regarding teachers’ career development according to opinions of managers and teachers serving in primary education schools. Method: General screening model was used in the study. Target population of the study consisted of 155 managers and 2100 teachers working in 40 primary schools in İstanbul province Bahçelievler district in 2008-2009 education year. Sample of the study was formed by 80 managers and 313 teachers, 393 teachers and managers in total chosen by random sampling method from population. Uni-dimensional and 30 point data collection tool was developed to collect data. Alpha value of the tool was calculated 0.97, which shows reliability of the tool is high. SPSS 11,5 package program was used to analyze data. Arithmetic mean and standard deviation values were scanned in order to determine to what extent headmasters perform their leadership role regarding teachers’ career development according to manager and teacher opinions. To determine the significant difference between managers and teachers’ perceptions in regard to position, prize and in-service training variables, t test and for seniority variable, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were performed and for situations where difference found Tukey’s HSD test was used. Results are interpreted in this sense. Level of significance was