Empowering Secondary School Teachers Through Administrative Tasks

One prevalent problem confronting small schools is the unavailability of non-teaching staff that can serve the school in its financial and reportorial matters. This study looked into the need of small schools to establish their own school organizational staff that would aid the school head to be efficient in the financial and reportorial matters. This scenario is evident in Buhatan National High School (BNHS) where the school head delegated administrative functions to teachers. This case study described the present school organizational staffing, existing and preferred cultural organization (OCAI), the level of effectiveness of the present school staffing (using SEAI by Durrant and Holden) rated by the three groups of respondents — the administrator and faculty, PTA officers and SSG officers of BNHS and the significant difference in the rating of the three groups of respondents using ANOVA. It was found that the school is observing an organizational staffing where teachers take academic and administrative roles as initiated by its school head. Clan is their existing and preferred organizational culture. It also revealed that the school’s level of effectivenessis highly effective. And, the responses of the three groups of respondents were statistically different.

Keywords: Teacher empowerment, organizational culture, effectiveness, staffing, administrative tasks