Palestinian Secondary Public Schools’ Principals’ Commitment Degree to Professional Ethics from their Teachers’ Perspectives

This study aims at identifying the degree of Palestinian secondary schools’ principals’ commitment to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective, according to gender, qualifications , working years and the directorate location. The study population was (12056) ,consisted of all secondary governmental schoolteachers in the west bank during the first semester of (2009/2010). To achieve the study’s goals, a stratified random sample of(1349)teachers(=11% of the whole population)was selected , a questionnaire of (64) items was built and distributed covering all public secondary schools in the west bank. The researcher used the averages, standard deviation, frequencies, independent T- test Samples), One Way ANOVA) and Tukey test.The study was reliable. - The average of Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective was high (4.15-4.41), whereas ,the overall average of the study’s seven domains was (4.29). - The domains order of the Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective was as follows: The principal’s ethics towards his job, followed by his ethics towards homeland, then comes towards learners, followed his ethics towards local community , after that , the domain of his ethics towards himself.The last domain is the principal’s ethics towards teachers. -There were significant differences at (α=0.05) in Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective due to gender variable leaning towards male teachers, and to working years variable leaning towards (1-5) category, and for the sake of the directorate location variable leaning towards the following directorates sorted in descending order: Tubas, Qabatya, Qalqilia, Huwwara , and Tulkarm. - There were no significant differences at (α=0.05) in Palestinian secondary public schools’ principals’ commitment degree to professional ethics from their teachers’ perspective due to qualifications. Recommendations: The researcher put a set of recommendations in the light of the study’s outcomes such as: - It is recommended that the Ministry of Education give the teachers a chance to evaluate their principals which may strengthen the ties between them. - Holding training courses addressing teachers to increase awareness pertaining the importance of educational research in promoting schools and educational services in a way to reach the best situations for both learners andstaff.