Transformational Leadership for Improving Teacher’s Performance During the Covid-19 Pandemic

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210212.069How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Covid-19 pandemic, teacher’s performance, transformational leadership

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the effect of transformational leadership for improving teacher’s performance during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research is a sequential explanatory study using a combination research method (mixed methods) starting with the quantitative research stage and continuing with qualitative research. Data collection was carried out by observation, questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaire was tested using a Likert scale with regression techniques to 50 private teachers in Bandung. The results showed that transformational leadership improving teacher performance by 44%. The higher implications of transformational leadership, the higher teacher’s performance improving. The research evidence more clearly shows that transformational leadership can move followers to exceed expected performance. Transformational leadership gives rise to greater effort, commitment, and satisfaction of his subordinates. Improving teacher’s teaching performance can be optimized by developing the capacity of the teacher (capacity building) itself. Capacity building is the process of improving the ability of knowledge and skills, as well as the attitudes and behavior of teachers in educational organizations. In this process it can certainly be done in various ways, both through competency-based education and training, clear career pattern development, all of which are to improve the performance of teachers in carrying out their duties. Therefore, capacity building is closely related to teacher’s abilities, institutional capabilities, and organizational system capabilities. With improving teacher’s performance, it is expected that educational goals can be achieved effectively and efficiently.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Erly Savitri
AU  - Asep Sudarsyah
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/02/12
TI  - Transformational Leadership for Improving Teacher’s Performance During the Covid-19 Pandemic
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Research of Educational Administration and Management (ICREAM 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 308
EP  - 312
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210212.069
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210212.069
ID  - Savitri2021
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