Reflections of grouping of teachers working in schools on the school management process

The purpose of this research is to examine deeply the reflection of the groupings among the teachers working in the schools on the school management process, student success, school climate and school culture. This study was carried out with the aim of revealing the reasons for the groupings among the teachers working in the schools, suggesting solutions to the causes of the grouping, and increasing the success in our schools by enabling our teachers to work in cooperation. The research was carried out in the scope of qualitative research method. The study was organized within the framework of the phenomenology pattern, one of the qualitative research method patterns. The study group of this research was determined by purposive sampling method. The study group of the research consists of 20 administrators and teachers, involved classroom teacher, mathematics teacher, pre-school teacher, English teacher, Turkish teacher, Technology Design teacher, Information Technologies teacher, Science and Technology teacher, Visual Arts teacher, who work in the central district of Amasya province in the 2021/2022 academic year. A semi-structured interview form consisting of 18 open-ended questions was used as a data collection tool in the research. Since it is known that the Covid-19 is a disease that spreads very quickly among people, especially when people are in close distance and contact with each other, interviews were made via telephone or zoom programs to avoid close distance and contact with the participants, and the data were collected by these methods. Participants were asked to answer the interview questions candidly and sincerely. Each interview lasted an average of 45-60 minutes. The data obtained as a result of the studies were analyzed from a descriptive point of view. When the data were analyzed as a result of the research, the participants firstly defined the concept of grouping as having the same idea, small communities, separation and being a group, interest relationship and meeting on a common ground. As a result of the research, the participants explained the reasons for grouping among the teachers as gender, unions, teachers' worldviews, branch differences, lack of school culture and common students. They expressed the effects of groupings among teachers on education as the emergence of obstacles in education, the decrease in school success, the occurrence of communication problems and the emergence of teacher separations. In order to minimize the negative effects of groupings among teachers, the teachers participating in the research suggested that social activities should be organized among teachers, communication ties should be strengthened at school, school management should be neutral, school culture should be created, professional awareness should be created in teachers and discipline should be provided at school.