The Influence of School Leaders’ Academic Mentoring on the Teaching Quality of Primary School Teachers

Leadership roles at the school have gained a growing emphasis on leadership as involved in the educational improvement of the schools. This research paper was conducted on the impacts of academic mentoring of the school leaders on the quality of teaching of primary school teachers in the Kohat Division, in Pakistan. The research was built on the instructional leadership theory, and the study had a quantitative research design and used the questionnaire with a well-designed layout to gather data of a stratified random sampling of primary school teachers, 300 urban and 300 rural. The instrument included measures of academic mentoring dimensions that touched on classroom observation, the provision of feedback, professional development, and assistance in innovative teaching methods. Prevalence and nature of mentoring practices were summarized as part of descriptive analysis and the aspects of the relationships between academic mentoring and teaching quality were identified as part of inferential analysis with Pearson correlation and multiple regression. The results showed that the correlation between mentoring practices used by school leaders and the instructional effectiveness of teachers, their classroom management, and the learners-based pedagogies were positively correlated with a statistically significant value of r. Those professionals who expressed a higher degree of mentoring with their school leaders were shown to be more adaptive in the planning of their lessons, have better assessment processes and a greater engagement of their students. The research states that academic mentorship of school leaders is an important component that drives teaching quality, which impacts the sphere of leadership training, policymaking at improving schools, and professional development schemes. It advises that educational authorities entrench mentoring as one of the key aspects of leadership and offer specific capacity-building support programs to school leaders to maintain and improve the quality of teaching at the primary education level.