Abstract:

This study aims to identify the prevailing leadership styles of classroom management in North Al Batinah Governorate schools from the point of view of senior teachers and to explore differences in response averages among the members of the study sample according to variables of gender and years of experience. To achieve the aims of the study, the researchers has adopted the descriptive approach and developed a questionnaire consisted of (45) paragraphs divided into five fields: authoritarian style, democratic style, anarchic style, participative style and transformational style. The instrument has been applied to the study sample consisted of (330) senior teachers, the study has reached out a number of results, most notably are: the prevailing style in Al Batinah North Governorate schools is the transformational leadership style having the highest score, followed by the participative style, then the democratic style in the third place with high practice score, while the anarchic style is in the fourth place with average score and the authoritarian style is in the last place as the least leadership style practiced in the Governorate schools. The study results have also concluded that there are no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (α≤0.05) in the scores of the study sample attributed to gender variable in all leadership styles except the authoritarian one for the interest of females. In the light of the study results, the study presents a number of recommendations such as: supporting classroom leadership in line with the recent changes at the educational establishments; generalizing the democratic, participative and transformational classroom practices as appropriate to the educational needs inside classroom.

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