Paper Title
Administrators’ Roles in Inspiration For the Success of Teachers in Compulsory Schools Under the Office of Mahasarakham Primary Educational Service Area 3
Abstract
This study aimed to examine the school administrators’ roles in inspiration for the success of teachers thus develop
guidelines for school administrators to inspire teachers’ successin compulsory schools under MahaSarakham Primary
Educational Service Area 3, Thailand. Researchers utilized mixed mode method using survey and focus group interview
design. A total of 220 teachers as well as seven school administrators were involved phase 1 and phase 2 of this study as
respondents respectively. Researchers employed purposive sampling technique for the seven qualitative samples while
multi-stage sampling technique for 220 quantitative samples by utilizing Krejcie and Morgan table. Two types of research
instruments were utilized in this study namely questionnaire and focus group interview protocol. This study was conducted in
two phases. Descriptive statistic like mean score, percentage as well as content analysis were utilized to analyze the obtained
data.The results from the first phase indicated that all the school administrators’ roles were at high level.In additionguidelines
for school administrators to inspire their teachers’ success include: School administrators must touch teachers’ heart and give
an encouragement to teachers. In addition, school administrators must be dedicated and open-minded. They should act as good
role models and consultants by having the principles of self-management, people management, and task management. School
administrators should also work based on good governance, justice and transparency. Evaluation criteria should be set up in
acceptable, systematic and clear way, and evaluation results should be reported to all teachers at the schools. A committee for
evaluation should be formed with the fairness, and the information should be disclosed and inspected. Teachers from all sectors
should work together to write a key performance indicator (KPI) with the standard criteria. Before assigning tasks to teachers,
school administrators should understand the teachers’ competencies. School administrators should build up trust among their
team. Bias against teachers should be avoided, and organizational conflicts were the responsibility for the school
administrators to resolve. School administrators should have an EQ and form a working team to be responsible for planning
evaluation. School administrators should have positive thinking, speaking and acting. On top of that, school administrators
should make a creative conversation and a good planning. School administrators should lead the way of using the evaluation
results and giving feedbacks for developing staff’s competencies. Finally, budget for teacher development must be supported.
Index Terms— Compulsory schools, school administrators’ roles, success of teachers.