ممارسة المشرفين التربويين لمصادر القوة في محافظة ظفار بسلطنة عمان من وجهة نظر المعلمين الأوائل
This study aimed at identifying the degree of educational supervisors' practice of power sources in Dafar governorate in the Sultanate of Oman from the point of view of the first teachers To achieve the study’s objectives, a questionnaire consisting of (33) items was administrated to (70) assistant principal and first teachers. To answer the study questions means, standard deviation, and T-test were used. Results showed that the degree of educational supervisors' practice of power sources in Dafar governorate in the Sultanate of Oman from the point of view of the first teachers was high at the following; Character, Mental stimulation, law power, expert power, reward power, and coercion. In addition, no statistical differences were found in the degree of educational supervisors' practice of power sources in Dafar governorate in the Sultanate of Omanat at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) due to the effect of educational qualification, gender and experience. In the light of the study findings, the researcher would like to recommend that educational supervisors motivate teachers by material and moral incentives. Also, the supervisors shall work to fulfill diverse personal needs as well as organizing educational programs for supervisors to develop their skills to practice the power of experience so as not to be confined with the power of law. (Published abstract)