Abstract
School administrators consisting of Principals and Headmasters (PGB) play a significant role in leading the school to achieve excellence. To ensure that excellence is achieved within the timeframe stipulated, the PGB received guidance from fellow coaches known as School Improvement Partners (SIP). The coaching process requires mutual understanding between the two parties so that it can work smoothly and effectively (Narimawati, 2007) without any conflict of ideologies. This study is to identify the effectiveness of the coaching of SIP through the good relations and professional skills practiced during the ongoing coaching. A total of 212 PGB as respondents and data were analyzed using SPSS version 23 for the descriptive analysis, while AMOS version 22 is used for advanced statistics Structural Equation Modeling. The study found that the goodness of fit model by SIP coaching is good with reading of chi-square/df=2.203, CFI=
 .969, p=0.00 and RMSEA=.076. Good relationship with professional coaching sessions have contributed a total of 71% (R2=.71) to the effectiveness of the coaching as well as it helps to increase the PGB confidence in the development of schools. This finding confirms that coaching by SIP directly acts as a catalyst for the success of the school and to complete the needs of mission and vision of the Ministry of Education, Malaysia.
Highlights
The success of an empire is very dependent on the ability of leaders to think critically, analytically and thoroughly
Part A consists of items related to the information and personal details of respondents, while Part B covers three (3) constructs namely; i) 8 items related to the relationship between School Improvement Partners (SIP) with PGB; ii) items related to the field of professionalism skills of SIP; and iii) items related to the effectiveness of the coaching of SIP towards PGB
The results of this study showed that most administrators are among those aged over 40 years (97.2%) and 40.6% of them had held this position between 6-10 years the cooperation and guidance of outsiders expertise is still needed
Summary
The success of an empire is very dependent on the ability of leaders to think critically, analytically and thoroughly. SIP plays a different role which encompass a coach, mentor and counselor to the administrator of the school, while the SISC is to act as an expert adviser to subject teachers. Both groups have a role as partners to upgrade the school in moving towards achieving excellence. Research Method Design Review The study conducted is based on quantitative, descriptive and correlation This method emphasizes the specific objectives for translating research questions in addition to help researchers collect and analyze data (Chua, 2006: 2009; Fraenkel, 2007). This study takes the same value as the reliability level of the index and found that questionnaire is considered higher which between 0.958 and 0.961
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