Abstract:
Currently, there is a huge demand for secondary school education worldwide
especially in the developing countries such as Malawi. In order to meet this for the
secondary school education, the Malawian government tries to develop effective
school leadership in its education policy agenda. We conducted a qualitative study
involving two religious-run secondary schools that have been achieving excellent
results in order to examine the instructional leadership roles of the principals.. The
study consist two principals, ten students, six parents and fourteen teachers. The study
revealed that the principals established the positive partnership with the parents,
students as well as the teachers. It is also discovered that the principals’
responsibilities in both schools were often distributed to the teachers as well as their
students. Furthermore, we also discovered that the principals in those schools played
much emphasis on the academic results by prioritizing the allocation of enough
resources in the teaching and learning as well as the effective use of time and other
resources. Therefore, the Malawian government should make sure to have many
principals that may have effective instructional leadership capacity in order to
improve the culture of teaching and learning in Malawian secondary schools.
