Principal and Teacher Leadership Competencies and 21st Century Teacher Learning and Facilitating Practices: Instrument Development and Demographic Analysis

Abstract

The skills of principal and teachers play an essential part in the Malaysian world of education, which is working to achieve quality education in pedagogy, curriculum, management and management of an educational organisation. This survey was conducted to refine and validate the principal leadership competencies and teacher leadership competencies and 21st Century learning and facilitating practices of teachers in secondary schools. The validity and reliability of the principal and teacher leadership competences and 21st century learning and facilitating practices of teachers’ instrument have been tested in the exploratory factor analysis and reliability analysis. For the whole scale, the Cronbach Alpha coefficient was 0.98. Demographics revealed that the principal leadership competencies and teacher leadership competencies as well as 21st Century learning and facilitating practices of teachers was at a high level.