Instructional Leadership Practices and Students' Academic Achievement

Abstract

Instructional leadership practices are essential components to promote a healthy environment and to get students' good performance, abilities, and satisfactory academic results within the classroom. The purpose of this study is to seek the learner's achievement with the help of motivation, teacher competency, self-efficacy, and teachers handling specific corporate challenges through the instructional practices rendered by school heads. A quantitative research design was used to target the data from the participants. The target population of the study was instructional heads of federal public secondary schools in Islamabad. The study sample comprised instructional heads of twenty secondary schools. The survey method was used to get the responses of the participants. A statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) was used to enter the participants' responses. Mean and correlation tests were used to get the participants' results. The study results showed that leadership practices have a positive impact on students' academic achievement. Teachers should encourage the students to promote a healthy environment for learning. Teachers' desires, reward systems, high expectations for students, an organization, and students, as well as teachers' commitment and engagement in classroom activities, are essential practices for student achievement. Curriculum designers must promote productive, continuous motivational & managerial teaching methods in textbooks for learners and teachers.