Transformational Leadership Towards Excellent Madrasah

Abstract

Education reform regarding school leadership in Asia can be conceptualize into three paradigms of movement towards excellent schools with effective school and school improvement models which are (1) Internal Leadership; (2) Interface Leadership and (3) Future Leadership.  This article uses qualitative method as its research method and aims to obtain an overviewvand analyse the transformational leadership of the head of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Insan Cendekia Serpong. Bass (1985) offers four criteria for transformational leadership, namely Idealised Influence, Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Simulation, and Individualised Consideration. This research uses a qualitative descriptive analysis approach to collect the research data using interview, observation and analysis document. The data then was analysed through data reduction, data presentation, data verification, and conclusion. The findings shows that the head of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Insan Cendekia Serpong is able to apply four main criteria in transformational leadership: 1) idealised influence through the vision, mission and targets of the madrasah, 2) inspirational motivation reflected in behaviour that always provides challenges to generate optimism and enthusiasm. 3) Intellectual Simulation encourages to be creative, innovative in solving problems, and 4) Individualised Consideration