Administrators' and teachers' opinions on crisis management in high schools

The purpose of this study is to gain a determination of what the teachers and administrators working in high schools located in the Central District of Uşak province consider about crisis management in schools in accordance with different variables. The population of the research- which was conducted using the quantitative method- was composed of the 19 high schools located in the Central District of Uşak province, 86 managers and 818 teachers working in these schools during the 2013-2014 academic year. The research sample was not composed from the related population but the questionnaire was applied to all administrators and teachers from the population of the research. The scales of 370 teachers and 42 administrators of the distributed scales were assessed. The data were collected through the Scale of Primary School Principals' Crisis Management Skills, which was developed by Aksu and Deveci (2009). In the analyses of research data as well as descriptive statistic, t-test, one way variance analysis (ANOVA) and Tukey significance test was used. The data was analyzed by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) 17.0 package program. According to the research findings, teachers' opinions related to the crisis management skills of school management have been found in general in relation to the whole crisis process 'sometimes' level while the executive opinion 'mostly' level. When teachers' opinions related to crisis management skills of school management compares in terms of gender and school type variable, a significant difference has been found between the views of female teachers and male teachers and between public school teachers' and vocational school teachers' in relation to the moment of crisis and post-crisis size. Accordingly, female teachers compared to male teachers, general high school teachers compared to the vocational high school teachers, school management was evaluated more efficient in the moment of crisis and post-crisis management skills. Additionally, the teachers paticipated in in-service training in all sub-dimensions find school management more than enough in crisis management skills. According to the varying task types within the general process of crisis, comparing the executive opinions related to the crisis management skills of school management,; there is a significant difference between the principals and vice directors opinions. Accordingly, at crisis management skills, principals evaluate the school management more efficient than the vice directors.