A study of self-reported practices of instructional leaders’, teachers’ perceptions and teachers’ organizational commitment in the private colleges of Lahore

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Instructional leadership has been connected to teachers’ growth, development, to improve teaching & learning process. Teachers’ job satisfaction in organizational commitment. Study focuses on instructional leadership in the private colleges of Lahore. The study aims to describe the IL practices, to identify the important principals' instructional practices, & to investigate whether there is a relationship between the principals' instructional practices and organizational commitment. This study is quantitative in nature and, cluster sampling is used in sampling technique. Standardized Questionnaires with 5 points Likert scale is used to collect data. A questionnaire with 3 parts 1st PIMRS Scale of Hallinger for principal practices & 2nd same part for teachers’ to know their opinion. 3rd part organizational commitment scale TCM by Allen & Mayer are used to collect data from 400 private colleges of Lahore. Population of the study are 250 principals & 795 teachers from the total 650 private colleges, total strength of population is 1,045. Data analysis is done through T-test by using SPSS Software. Major findings of PIMRS related to framing the college goals, communicate the college goals, evaluate the instruction, coordinate the curriculum, monitor students’ progress, Happy to spend the rest of my career with this college, enjoying discussing my college with outside it, college has great deal of personnel meaning to me. It is recommended that all these comprehensive responsibilities should be add in the curriculum of instructional leadership, to provide professional development training on the base of knowledge, skills & productive attitude.
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