واقع مجتمعات التعلم المهني ة في المدارس الثانوي ة األردنية ودور القيادة المدرسي ة في دعمها، من وجهة نظر المعلمين

Abstract

The study aimed at investigating the reality of professional learning communities in Jordanian secondary schools, and the role of school leadership in supporting them, from the teachers’ viewpoint, using the descriptive-analytical approach. The researcher designed a questionnaire based on a previous related literature review. The questionnaire consisted of (40) items distributed over two dimensions: the reality level of professional learning communities, and the role of school leadership in supporting these communities. In this study, the researcher administered the questionnaire on a random sample of (1208) out of (18,325) teachers with a percentage of (6.5%). The results of the study revealed that the reality of professional learning communities in Jordanian secondary schools was of medium level, as well as the role of school leadership in supporting them, with statistically significant differences in the gender variable in the field of the reality of professional learning communities in secondary schools in favor of females. The study recommended training the school leaderships in order to adopt the culture of professional learning communities and to give it importance in the structural organization of schools.