THE TEACHER’S PERCEPTION ABOUT PRINCIPAL COMPETENCE IN ORGANIZING MADRASAH ACTIVITIES

A competency is defined as a capability or a ability. The principal organizing competency is determining how activities and resources are grouped in which a madrasah principal is able to use to activate plans and activities of madrasah. The purpose of this research is to analyze teachers’ perception toward organizing competence of principals in aspects of madrasah activities at four of MAN (Madrasah Aliyah Negeri /The State Islamic Senior High School) in Tanahdatar Regency, West Sumatra. The method of this research used quantitative descriptive. The instrument used  is questionnaires. The questionnaires are given to teachers to obtain data on the teachers’ perceptions of principal towards principal’s organizing competence. The population were 188 teachers, and then to be as sample of this research, was 128 which taken by using proportional random sampling. Based on the research finding, it was found that the organzing competence of the four MAN principals in Tanahdatar regency on the madrasah activities were 79.50%. These scores for the madrasah organizing activities are categorized into high category. In general based on quantitative results that the organizing competence of the madrasah principals of MAN four in Tanahdatar regency was good.