Exploring Leadership Challenges in Implementing Primary Education in Far Flung Areas

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The main objective of this study was to explore the leadership challenges in implementing primary education in far flung areas. The study was conducted in Tugunan Elementary School, Inupuan Elementary School, New Dauis Elementary School, San Vicente Elementary School and Sasa Elementary School, Nabunturan, Davao de Oro. Phenomenological study was used as the research design and purposive sampling was used to select the five key participants. The researcher adhered to the criteria that required participants to attend the remote school for at least two academic years. Participants' identities were kept confidential for safety and ethical reasons. The results of the study revealed that they experienced passing a challenging road to school, difficult handling in transporting of modules, and weather disturbances. School heads describing their situation as difficult and challenging, making efforts for parents’ involvement and difficult in handling multi-grade classes. The challenges encountered by the participants were teaching and school management at same time, handling multi-grade classes, lack of parent’s involvement, transporting of modules, slow performing students, and making a conducive learning environment. The challenges develop the academic performance are conduct reading program, making a nice school, unity and cooperation and parents’ involvement. Their coping mechanism were community harmonious relationship, having a good value, good management of school funds. The best practices developed conduct of reading program, implementing project watch, yearly feeding program, conduct of school festival of talents, and conduct of brigada eskwela.

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