Relación entre las prácticas de aula de los docentes y sus percepciones sobre la gestión educativa de los directivos : caso de estudio : Institución Educativa Juan María Céspedes, Medellín

Abstract

The present study was conducted in an official educative institution in Medellin, Colombia, and its objective was to analyze the relation between classroom's practices of the teachers and their perception about the educative management of the school authorities. Through this research of quantitative approach of descriptive and inferential type and observational design, not experimental and of correlational type, it was made a questionnaire validated through the experts judgement to the teachers (n=56) of the Educative institution that was the object of study; with this instruments it was intendent to describe the classroom's practices of the teachers, and from that self-evaluation, there were known their perceptions about the educational management of the school's directors to finally, determine the existence of the relation between the aforementioned variables. The dimensions: Planning, learning environment, learning culture and pedagogical practice constitute the dependent variable. Classroom practices, as directive management, academic management, administrative management and community management took care of the independent variable Educational management. These variables were analyzed in descriptive level, using average and typical deviation. By the other side, to determine the relation between both variables, the Spearman Brown correlation coefficient, at a significance level of 5% was used. When observing the results about the relationship between the four dimensions of each of the analyzed variables, and taking into account the value of ? = 0.11, it was possible to conclude that teachers' perceptions of the educational management of the institution's managers were relate statistically significantly to their classroom Practices (r = 0.338

).