The Link Between Principal Leadership Style And Teachers‘ Continuous Professional Developmen In Secondary Schools Of Addis Ababa City Administration Akaki Sub-City

Abstract

This study was done on the link between principal leadership style and teachers continuous professional development in secondary schools of Addis Ababa city administration Akaki sub-city. The study was delimited to 11 secondary schools and 220 teachers and principals. The data was collected by questionnaire and interview. The data analyses performed using descriptive and inferential statistics for independent and dependent variables. The result shows coaching leadership style has low mean value relative to others independent variables that are listed from this research. The respondents are not satisfied about coaching leadership in selected schools. Directing leadership (3.4091) has moderate level of mean value. This shows that the directing leadership style have moderate level of agreement from respondents on CPD from selected schools. On the other hand CPD, delegating leadership and facilitating leadership are scored above 3.80 mean values of descriptive statistics. This shows that the respondents are highly satisfied and organization were did seriously on those directing styles. From inferential statistics regression result shows, Delegating leadership, directing leadership, Coaching leadership and Facilitating leadership makes the strongest unique contribution to explaining the dependent variable (CPD). This revealed that, if the independent variable like" Delegating leadership Directing leadership , Coaching leadership and Facilitating leader ship are statistically significant and would lead to a 0.792, 0.410, 0.056 and 0.044 unit increase the level of continuous professional development. Therefore the study recommended that the concerned body will insure that principals skills, knowledge, style and attitudes to improve teachers continuous professional development.