Developing of Comprehensive Resilient Educational Model for Head Teachers’ High Performance in Malaysia Primary School

Abstract

This paper explores the modelling of resiliency among educational leaders, which promotes resilient schools. The pandemic has a firmer grip on everybody and batters each of people more physically, mentally, and emotionally. Disruptions and changes in daily activities caused by the pandemic have led to uncontrolled feelings of stress. Stress is, however, normal in daily life. It could stimulate creativity, promote diligence and increase performance. As a result, in most studies, the key to a coping strategy is positive thinking which inhibits self-development. It is between being good at stress and positive thinking. They could have the best intentions of spending their time on issues that matter most. The high-performing head teachers have sustainable work done and find ways to develop the resilience to focus their work from distractions. The high stakes work in schools today facing the COVID-19 pandemic, learning and teaching at home and managing school through online basis. Resiliency is an absolute must to keep people engaged, passionate, and committed to achieve challenging situations. Besides helping leaders to help themselves, resilience helps them to help others within the school and in partnership with communities. This study lighted up effective ways of courage to support others. This study explored the resilient factors and challenges of seven high-performing head teachers and two experts from a few states in Malaysia. Based on the data collected through semi-structured interviews, the study seeks to identify the positive relationship between resilience and positive school outcomes. The findings would provide valuable ideas for head teachers in primary schools and future researchers who interested in conducting similar studies to develop more high-performing primary school head teachers’ literature from primary school leader’s context. The concept associated with the leaders’ need to help resilient leaders thrive as individuals and as leaders in educational leaders’ resiliency.