الممارسات القيادية الفعالة لمدارء المدارس الثانوية في مجال توظيف تكنولوجيا المعلومات و الإتصال بالعملية التعلمية من وجهة نظرالمعلمين في الكويت

Abstract AR

Kuwait is described as an oil rich country and has its own plans to diversify its economy.

Accordingly, government of Kuwait has developed strategies in several sectors willing to improve its economy.

One of the developing strategies focused on reforming the education system.

Implementation of ICT in the education was proposed to promote the educational system.

Due to the important role of schools principals in leading change and development, this study expected to reveal the effective leadership practices of six high schools' principals from the teachers' perspectives, in order to provide a rich description of the skills, practices and strategies adopted by these principals in light of the Kuwaiti society culture.

The study has adopted a questionnaire as a tool to collect data, which is developed from the available theoretical literature.

The questionnaire included 24 items distributed among six main dimensions; (1) building collaboration, (2) setting direction,(3) leading PD activities,(4) leading ICT implementation,(5) motivating staff,(6) principal agency.

240 teachers (male & female) were surveyed in the study.

Results have shown that the principals were practiced the suggestions leadership practices to stimulate ICT use in learning and teaching processes; with a high percentage (78.2%), with a mean of (3.91%).

Moreover, results indicated no statistically significance of the independent variables according to the study sample.

A number of recommendations were suggested in the study according to the given results.