The Effective Communication between Public Secondary School Principals and Teachers in Jarash and its Relationship with the Degree to Which Teachers Carry out the Required Duties from their Perspective

The present study aimed to explore the extent of carrying out effective communication between public secondary school principals and teachers in Jarash. It also aimed to explore the relationship between such communication and the degree to which teachers carry out the required duties from their perspective. The sample consists from 162 female and male teachers. Those teachers were selected through using the stratified random sampling method. They were selected from the public secondary schools in Jarash during the academic year (2014/2015). To meet the study’s goals, two instruments were developed. The first instrument is a questionnaire that aims at measuring the extent of carrying out effectiveness of the communication between public secondary school principals and teachers. It sheds a light on the following areas: (meetings, interviews, phone calls and reports). The second instrument is a questionnaire that aims at measuring the degree to which teachers carry out the required duties. The researcher adopted the correlative survey-based approach. It was found that the dominant pattern of communication between public secondary school principals and teachers in Jarash is the effective communication. It was found that the degree to which teachers carry out the required duties is high. It was found that there is a statistically significant positive correlation between the the effective communication between public secondary school principals and teachers and the degree to which teachers carry out the required duties. It was found that the extent of carrying out effective communication between public secondary school principals and teachers in Jarash is high. The reports area is ranked first. The meetings area is ranked last. It was found that the degree to which teachers carry out the required duties is high. Keywords: Teachers’ performance ¸ effective communication, teachers’ duties, public secondary schools DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-20-15 Publication date:July 31st 202