Transformational Leadership of School Administrators and the Motive in Work of Teachers in Pilot Schools under the Educational Sandbox in Southern Border Provinces

Abstract

This thesis purposes are to 1) study the transformational leadership of school administrators in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces; 2) study the level of motivation in work of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces; 3) compare the level of transformational leadership of school administrators in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces, categorized variables by gender and role; 4) compare the level of transformational leadership of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces, categorized variables by work performance and school size; 5) study the relation of transformational leadership and motivation in work of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces; and 6) compile recommendations about the relation between transformational leadership and motivation in work of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in the southern border provinces. The samples were 363 teachers and school administrators, determining size by Yamane’s formula. Then, use the sample random sampling. And sampling without replacement as the last. The research tool is 4-part questionnaire. The applied statistics are frequency, percentage, average, standard derivation, T-Test, F-Test. When the difference was found, then use pair wise multiple comparison of Scheffé's method and Pearson product moment correlation was applied.

As the consequences,

1. Transformational leadership of the school administrators in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces is high in overall.


2. The level of motivation in work of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces is highest.


3. Comparing the level of the transformational leadership of school administrators in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces with categorized by gender and position, in overall has no difference in gender categorization. As aspect consideration, the ideal influence differs significantly statistic at .05. As categorizing position, the overall is different with significant statistic at .001 except the intellectual stimulation differs significantly in statistic at .01


4. Comparing the level of transformational leadership of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces, categorized variables by work performance, the overall and each aspect are different significantly statistic at .001. As the comparing with categorized variables by school size, is different at .01 in overall, except responsibility which different significantly statistic at .001. As job promotion is not different.


5. The relation of transformational leadership of school administrators and motivation in work of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in southern boarder provinces, in overall has the positive relation as high (r = .853) significantly statistic at .001. As considering each respect, most of them has quite high level of positive relation significantly statistic at .001. except achievement which the positive relation is high as significantly statistic at .001.


6. The recommendations about the relation of transformational leadership and motivation in work of teachers in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in the southern border provinces, are the administrators should promote the teachers systematically solve the problem, learn, and consider by own-self. Then, stimulate the teachers for the creative thinking, recognize the problems of education for finding the new solutions or educational innovation which is useful in area and organization’s outstanding achievements. These will make the teachers satisfied and get the motivation in work more effective to accomplishment as in pilot schools under the educational sandbox in the southern boarder provinces.