El liderazgo directivo como elemento estratégico - en la efectividad del desempeño docente, en una Unidad Educativa de la ciudad de Cuenca en el periodo 2017-2018

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of this piece of research is to analyze the principal leadership as a strategic element in the effectiveness of the Teaching Practice, in a school in the city of Cuenca. The achievement of organization is impossible without individual excellence; therefore, the educational leader is needed nowadays, Organization demands much more than methodological capabilities; it requires multiple skills. Leadership means to guide groups of individuals in order to meet the proposed goals, despite the difficulties that might appeared. The investigation line is within the management process in education, it aims. The sample consisted of 45 teachers, they work in a school in the City of Cuenca, and the methods used were the scientific, descriptive, statistical and analytical. When carrying out the measurement of the directive leadership through the raised survey, it was possible to identify that within the educational center there is an autocratic leadership, the same that is evidenced in the analysis of results.