The Principal's Leadership: How to Improve the Quality of Teaching and Learning Process in State Junior High School of Luwu

Abstract

This study aims to determine the type of principal leadership in improving the quality of teaching and learning process, also supporting factors at State Junior High School 4 in Walenrang, Luwu. This research is a qualitative study using pedagogical, management, and psychological approaches. Instruments used observation, interviews, and documentation. This study indicates that the type of principal leadership in improving education quality at State Junior High School 4 Walenrang is a democratic type with personality, managerial, entrepreneurial, supervisory, and social competencies. The form of the principal's efforts to improve the quality of education at State Junior High School 4 Walenrang through 8 National Education Standards, namely content standards, process standards, graduate competency standards, standards for educators and education personnel, infrastructure standards, management standards, financing standards, and the assessment standards uses four approaches, namely: school review, benchmarking, quality assurance and quality control. Supporting factors in improving the quality of education at State Junior High School 4 Walenrang are teacher professionalism and a quality learning process, support from the government and local communities. The inhibiting factors are students' undisciplined behavior, lack of funds, and lack of IT tools.