The efectiveness level of school administrator?s coaching characteristic on school?s being learning organization

The aim of the study is to determine the effectiveness level of the coaching skills of school administrators on the school becoming a learning organization. It is a descriptive study and survey method was used.The universe of the study consists of teachers who are working at public and private secondary schools affiliated to Ministry of National Education, Kütahya Province National Education Directorate in the academic year of 2011-2012. The method of appropriate sampling was used in the study.In the research, as a means of data collection, Learning School Perception Scale taken from Subaş (2010) and Coaching and Management Skills Scale from Yeltan (2007) were used.In the analysis of the data, frequencies, percentages, means, standard deviation, independent samples t test, one way analysis of variance, cross tables and chi-square test were used.As a result of the research, a significant relation were found between the coaching skills of the school administrators and the school?s becoming a learning organization. In the factors of Learning School and Coaching, a significant difference according to types of schools that the participants work was found, however, a significant difference was not found according to the variables of gender, seniority and education level.Keywords: Coaching, Learning Organization, School Administrators