This study aims to examine the relationships among principals’ leader styles, administration support and core competence of executing after-school care by using a census survey as data collection method. The subjects were selected from the pool of executing after-school care program in New Taipei City with total 168 principals as the parameter subjects and got 148 as the valid subjects.with 88.1% return rate. Data analyses used descriptive statitics, independent-sample t test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation and multiple regression to test the hypothses.
The findings are fourhold as follow: 1. Principals use high structure and considerate leadership in executing after-school care program in New Taipei City. 2. Principals always give high support of administration under the legal regulation and budget; the teachers look forward to princiapls’ participating in their progams.. 3. No matter the demongraphic variables (i.e. sex, school scale, educational background, the priority of education, years of experiences), there are no significant differences existed in leader style, administration support or core competence of executing after-school care program. 4. There are significant correlation among leader style, administration support and core competence of executing after-school care program. Besides administrative communication is the best predictor to core competence of executing after-school care program in New Taipei City.
As afroremetioned, this study suggests the priciapals should highly support the team of after-school care program to inspire the efforts as well as to promote teachers’ learning morale. The principals should treat the team equally and communicate in order to adovate the policy and renovate the progam. In the long run, the students will take advantages of best interests by attending after-school care progams.
