Instructi̇onal and administrative behaviours of school administrators: Polatlı case

In our developing and changing age, in order to have effective schools, school administrators have to be instructional leaders. By determining instructional leadership and administrative leadership behaviours of school administrators and by developing proposals to attrack those behaviours in to positive way it is aimed to have more quality and succesful generations in educational institutions. The school administrators in Ankara, in Polatlı district, working in forty public schools which belong to National Education Ministry constitutes the sample of this research. At first by using personal information form, demoghraphic fetures of participants is determined then the survey form that contains 23 questions and developed by Teaching and Learning İnternational Survey (TALIS) in 2008 was applied. In analyzing of datas, SPSS 15.0 package program was used and the frequency and percantage of demographic features was examined. Also the means and standard deviation of data in research was determined. The effect of professonal seniority and the type of schools on their leadership behaviours is found by using graphics. According to results of this research the school administrators exhibits "instructional management" (x ̅=3,157) and "management of school aims" (x ̅=3,155) subdimensions of "instructional leadership" nearly equally. Also they mostly exhibit "bureaucratic management" (x ̅=3,52) sub-dimension of administrative leadership. Both "professonal seniority" and the "type of the schools" variables have more effects on primary school managers', instructional leadership and administrative leadership behaviours.