Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to explore the practices of the instructional leadership of school
principals in primary schools of Dano woreda west shoa zone Oromia regional state.
Descriptive Survey design was employed. Twenty primary schools and total 139 respondents
participated. primary data sources was employed, Questionnaire and interview were data
gathering instruments. Therefore, the data collected through questionnaire was analyzed
quantetively using tactical tools like percentage, mean, t-test and Standard deviation by using
version 20 SPSS software. The interview and open ended data was qualitatively analyzed. The
main findings included absence of principals’ role to communicate the school’s goals to
teacher’s student and parent and other stockholder in the study areas were the main agent of
instructional leader ship practices misunderstanding and confusion, no or little instructional
program management in the study areas. This can be attributed to the loose follow up of the
principals in the study area. The resulted was a serious instructional processing problem
In conclusion, the school principals did not sufficiently provide instructional leadership and
unless the communicating school mission and goal get attention the teaching learning process
status might be lowered The researcher recommended the following new model: primary school
principals in the selected area was expected to have a vision and knowledge of instruction. In
addition, they had to be committed to their work and be capable of creating a safe environment
and a school culture conducive to effective teaching and learning.
