A TELSA School Leaders’ Self-Assessment Application: A Case of Private Schools in Albania

Authors

  • Ibrahim Can Korkut PhD Candidate, Depo Luli Magjistralja Prishtinë-Shkup km 4,Prishtinë 10000, Kosova

Keywords:

School leader, self-development, assessment, Telsa.

Abstract

Competition in private schooling of our fast changing and globalized world demands higher qualities, at least significant development, not to fall behind and consequently lose the challenge. Schools play a crucial role in everybody’s life and families demand better education and outcomes for their children’s future. School leaders are the ones who can lead the development by keeping in touch with improvements and (inter)national requirements of success. All developments start with assessing the current state and making plans accordingly. However, leaders should start assessment from themselves. Especially in last twenty years, there have been more efforts to set standards for school leadership, their professional assessment and development. Self-assessments are formative assessments which can help leaders to develop their leadership knowledge, skills and practice if necessary steps are taken. Training and Educational Leader Self-Assessment (TELSA) as a free and thrust-worthy assessment tool with various dimensions can serve for the purpose as it is used as a school leaders’ self-assessment tool in this research. The purpose of this research is to find out how school leaders in Albanian private schools assess themselves, their strongest and weakest leadership development fields. The research focuses on three subdivisions as gender, educational background and work experience to classify their strongest and weakest points from the point of self-development. The results provide some cautionary signals to remind the school leaders of modern-world leadership concepts and advances.  

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2016-05-17

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Korkut, I. C. (2016). A TELSA School Leaders’ Self-Assessment Application: A Case of Private Schools in Albania. American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 19(1), 142–159. Retrieved from https://asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/1631

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