Identifying the Supervisory Components of Instructional and Educational Leaders of Primary Schools in order to Providing a Comprehensive Pattern for Iran's Government Education

Abstract

ose: Supervision and guidance in education plays an important role in reducing problems and improving performances. Therefore, the purpose of this study was identifying the supervisory components of instructional and educational leaders of primary schools in order to providing a comprehensive pattern for Iran's government education.   Methodology: Regarding to the purpose, this study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was qualitative. The research population was educational science professors and education experts of Hormozgan province, which according to the principle of theoretical saturation number of 12 people of them were selected as a sample with using the purposive sampling method. The tools of the current research were the demographic information form and semi-structured interview, which validity of the interviews was confirmed by the triangulation method and their reliability was calculated by the coefficient of agreement between two coders at 0.80. Data were analyzed by open, axial and selective coding method in MAXQDA software.     Findings: The findings showed that the supervisory components of instructional and educational leaders of primary schools in order to providing a comprehensive pattern for Iran's government education were included 53 concepts, 14 components and 8 categories. In the mentioned pattern the categories were included leadership in the educational improvement (including the components of recognizing of problems and educational improvement), leadership in the curriculum improvement (including the components of professional strategy and professional and social skills), leadership in the employees improvement (including the components of professional ethics-orientation, relational ethics-orientation and critical thinking skills), theoretical and scientific skills (including the components of familiarity with theory and practical ability), technical and technological skills (including the components of media literacy and technical and technological improvement), ethical and professional skills (including the component of purposive and hard worker), management and leadership skills (including the component of authoritarian) and communication skills (including the component of reliable and friendly relationships). Finally, a supervisory comprehensive pattern of instructional and educational leaders of primary schools for Iran's government education was drawn for Iran's government education.     Conclusion: According to the results of this study and the designed supervisory comprehensive pattern for instructional and educational leaders of primary schools for Iran's government education can be taken an effective step to improve the situation of Iran's education organization.