Abstract:

This study aims to reveal the relationship between school administrator’coaching behaviours and academic optimism of schools. It was designed with the correlational model. The population consisted of 2487 teachers in Salihli district of Manisa province and the sample consists of 497 teachers. This study adopted Convenience sampling method. According to the results of research, the perception levels of teachers toward the school administrators’ coaching behaviours were high. Additionally, as reported in the study, the perceptions of teachers toward administrators’ coaching behaviors at schools differed significantly in accordance with the variable of the number of teachers working at their schools and the gender variable, but no significant difference was determined in terms of the other variables. Teachers' perception level towards school academic optimism was high. The perception level of teachers regarding the schools’ academic optimism differed in accordance with the variables of the school level and graduation status significantly. There was a significant, medium-level and positive-oriented correlation among teachers’perception of administrators’ coaching behaviours and school academic optimism level of teachers. Subsequently, perceptions of teachers concerning situation determination dimension of administrator’ coaching behaviours in schools increased the level of teachers' academic optimism

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