Trends of teachers of public sec. schools in North governorates of West Bank towards their headmasters' administrative behaviors in using science labs

Abstract This study aims at finding out the trends of teachers in public sec. schools in North governorates of West Bank towards their headmasters' administrative behaviors in using science labs on the one hand, and recognizing how are these trends affected by different variables such as governorate, scientific qualification, years of experience, school position, students' gender, school location, school type and the number of training courses teachers have joined on the other hand. In order to achieve the aims of this study, the researcher used a well prepared questionnaire consisting of 55 items which are distributed on 6 fields( science teachers, students, community, administration, school construction, supplies and technology in the science labs). The study sample in this research included all the (320) science teachers of the school year 2011/2012 in the public sec. schools of the N governorates in West Bank, but just (307) /(95.9%) of the questionnaires were adopted from the total study sample; which consisted of (147) male and (160) female teachers. In order to check the stability of the applied means in this study, the researcher used Alpha- Cronbach to calculate the total stability coefficient of the questionnaires. The result was (96%), which is considered a high one and it satisfied the scientific research purposes. The researcher also used the (SPSS) in analyzing the data, he also used the following processors: iteration, percentage, arithmetic means, standard deviation in addition to one sample T- test, independent T- test, ANOVA, and Alpha- Cronbach. The results of this study were as follows: 1. Teachers' trends extent towards their headmasters' behaviors in using science labs resulted an arithmetic mean of (3.96), and a standard deviation of 0.54. 2. Construction and school supplies were in the first place with an arithmetic mean of (4.26), whereas the behaviors concerning the science teachers were in the second place (4.16), while those concerning the students were in the third place (3.65) and finally the ones of the local community were at the list bottom(3.64). 3. In general, the study found out that there are no statistically significant differences of those teachers' trends towards their headmasters concerning the above mentioned variables. Recommendations: 1. Providing schools with the eligible human and financial supplies in order to enable students to perform experiments easily. 2. Training both teachers and headmasters in a way that leads to use the science labs efficiently. 3. Adopt a new policy for training courses of science, through Working to provide a competent and qualified cadres qualified scientifically and educationally enough to proceed in teaching science. 4. Activating the role of the community in the education process by letting them share through financial support to the science labs, and preparing their children to do their best at school.