The leadership of the director and the engagement of high performance teachers in the schools of the Saint Gabriel Foundation, Thailand

Abstract

       The objectives of this study are to find out the level of the leadership of the director in the schools, to study the level of high performance teachers’ engagement and to realize the relationship between the leadership of the director and engagement of high performance teachers in the schools of the Saint Gabriel Foundation, Thailand. The sample group used in this study was high performance teachers in the fifteen schools who received the result of performance evaluation in the A4 and A 3 level (15 % of teachers) according to the Saint Gabriel Foundation of Thailand announcement no. 4/2553 regarding “Guidelines and standard criteria to evaluate performance of the teachers in the schools of the Saint Gabriel Foundation of Thailand B.E. 2553”. The total number of population was 480 persons. The instruments used in this study were questionnaires to survey the personal information, the level of the leadership of the director in the schools and the level of high performance teachers’ engagement. The result revealed that 1) The leadership of the director was in level “good”. Similarly, the result of each aspect revealed in level of “good”. 2) The level of high performance teachers’ engagement was in the level “good”. When these two aspects were considered, the result of each aspect revealed in level of “good” as well. 3) The difference between the average levels of high performance teachers’ engagement, regarding to the difference of personal data, it revealed that the difference between ages, years of service in school and salary resulted in the average levels of high performance teachers’ engagement with statistics significance. However, other data which comprised of gender, working status and level of education were different with non-statistics significance. 4) The relationship between the leadership of the director and high performance teachers’ engagement revealed that the leadership of the director had positive relationship with engagement of teachers with statistics significance. When considered in each aspect revealed that there was positive relationship with engagement of teachers covering three aspects with statistics significance accordingly.