Covıd-19 pandemi sürecinde öğretmen performansını geliştirmede okul yöneticisi çabalarının değerlendirilmesi: Budong-budong, Endonezya

This research aims to get an overview of the role of school leadership in improving teacher performance during the Covid-19 period. The research was conducted using qualitative methods with a case study approach. For the data collection, researcher conducted interviews, observations, and documentation. To select respondents at the interview stage, I use a purposive sampling technique. Therefore, there are 7 people involved in the interview consisting of 1 principal and 6 teachers at the 7 Junior High School (SMP) of Budong-budong district, Indonesia. In the process of data analysis, the researcher carried out several stages, namely data reducing, categorizing, visualizing and the last stage is drawing conclusions. Based on the results of this research, there are several roles of that principal can do to improving teacher performance during the Covid-19 pandemic, namely providing guidance and motivation, improve teacher capacity, evaluations, being a role model, and providing rewards and punishments. In addition, the results of the research also found that the performance of teachers at 7 Junior High School (SMP) of Budong-budong during the pandemic was divided into 2 categories. The first category is a group of teachers whose performance has decreased, while the second category is a group of teachers who have not experienced any change in performance between before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Keywords: Effort of Principal, Teacher Performance, Covid-19 Pandemic Period