Improving Teacher Competence in Education: The Effects of Leadership and Stress Management

Abstract

The Transformational Leadership Role of the principal in the education unit is needed, the principal's ability to encourage teachers in carrying out school will encourage teachers to be more creative in carrying out teaching, therefore the role of teachers in schools is very strategic, teachers in carrying out their profession philosophically and academically and procedures are honest, critical, creative, open, and simple scientific work. This attitude requires teachers to always carry out their duties as well as possible and always try to innovate in carrying out their duties as educators. How many skills must be possessed by teachers including having a good personality, being emotionally mature, having educational knowledge and knowledge, being able to develop learning media or having pedagogic, professional, personal and social abilities? In addition, the ability of teachers to manage stress in carrying out tasks is very important

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine Transformational Leadership, Stress Management, and Teacher Competence Therefore, the research question that is the focus of our research is: RQ1. Do transformational leadership and stress management together affect teacher competence? RQ2. What is the effect of transformational leadership on teacher competence? RQ3.

Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a quantitative approach to examine the effect of the three components of Transformational Leadership (TL) and Stress Management on the Competency Teachers of teachers in Senior High Schools in DKI Jakarta. This study uses a causality model to test the proposed hypothesis using structural equation modeling (SEM). Which will then be operated through moment structure software analysis 26.0 (AMOS 26.0). The population of this study was 1356 secondary school teachers in the DKI Jakarta area, Indonesia. The sample is determined by a proportional random sampling area; The sampling area is used to determine the grouping of districts/cities in the DKI Jakarta area, namely the south, west, central, north, and east regions. The sample size was 246 teachers determined by the Table for Determining Size Form A Given Population with a confidence level of 95%.

Findings: a result of this study, three hypotheses were developed based on theory. In this section, the results obtained by the first research hypothesis, transformational leadership towards competence are positive and significant. On the other hand, regarding the second research hypothesis, stress management affects competence. There are also several studies, confirming the quality for these results and revealing that there is a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership on competence and stress management on competence.