Abstract:
The purposes of this research were : 1) to study leader behavior of the director of small sized school under the expectation of the teachers under the office of Yasothon Educational Service Area 2 2) to compare leader behavior of the director of small school under the expectation of teacher by using years of working 3) to study suggestions in leader behavior development of the director of small school under the office of Yasothon Educational Service Area 2.
The sample group studied, consisted of 217 teachers of small sized schools under the office of Yasothon Educational Service Area2. The research instrument employed a questionnaire of 5 ratings scales and open-ended for data gathering. The percentage, means, standard deviation, t-test and F-test were statistically used in the data analysis.
The results of the research revealed that : 1. the expectation of teachers toward the leader behavior were at the high level, in terms of general and differentiated consideration.
When ranging from the highest to the lowest, the three tops of their expectation were seen thus - the team working leader behavior, the transformational leader behavior and the job-centered leader behavior respectively. 2. Regarding to the comparing of leader behavior of the director of small school under the expectation of teacher by using years of working showed the statistically significant difference at the level .05, in terms of general and differentiated consideration; the average expectation of team working leader behavior in over 20 years working teachers is more than upper 10 years working teachers but not over 20 years working. 3. the studying of suggestions showed that the expectation of teachers towards the leader behavior of the director of small school
in terms of general when ranging in percentage from the highest to the lowest were follow :
1) the director of small sized school have to be open- minded, supportive, and relationship-oriented. 2) the director of small sized school was a kindhearted and ethical model. 3) the director of small sized school have to be knowledgeable, competent, visionary and modern. 4) the director of small sized school should be a good advisor for teachers. And 5) the director of small sized school must be transparency and justified and administer by using a good governance. Form the studying of the suggestions, it can be concluded that the teachers of small sized school under the office of Yasothon Educational Service Area2 had more expectation on good leader behavior than skilful leader behavior.