Incidence of the English Area teachers management and leadership in the teaching and learning process in the high school students at UEE La Dolorosa, Quito, during the first term of the school year 2011-2012

Abstract

The quest to improve the quality of education in which as country we have been involved the last years, will be unfinished if the methodology, curricula and teacher development are not accompanied by a substantial improvement in the classroom management and teachers¿leadership style. Hence, this paper will analyze the influence of the English Area teachers¿ Leadership in the processes of teaching and learning at Unidad Educativa Experimental "La Dolorosa" in Quito. The Unidad Educativa Experimental "La Dolorosa" was founded as the Hogar Colegio "La Dolorosa" by Miss María Espinosa Polit on October 1st 1953 and it only worked as a high school. The year 1965, Ms. Polit gave the school to the religious congregation of Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to who it belongs until now. The UEE ¿La Dolorosa¿ is a particular religious school that has a total of 373 students in the high school level, and 4 teachers in the English Area. The total amount of English classes that students take each week is 10 hours. This study was conducted during the first term of the school year 2011-2012 with the high school students, the English staff and principals of the institution. We applied two types of surveys designed for each of the study groups as well as an interview for the principal and vice-principal...