KEPEMIMPINAN KEPALA SEKOLAH DI PAUD ISLAM TERPADU (STUDI MULTI SITUS DI PAUD ISLAM TERPADU AL FIRDAUD DAN PAUD ISLAM TERPADU SABILAL MUHTADIN)

Abstract

The future development of children is significantly influenced by the current

quality of education where the early stages of intelligence, character and personality

development are largely formed through education in early childhood, because the

early years are a unique and valuable time in life. The implementation of early

childhood education requires strong leadership from the education unit. The

effectiveness of the implementation of education is a key component of the growth

of an institution and it depends on the quality of the school including the level of

leadership strength of the principal. A leader plays a role in accountability for policies

that shape social values, life skills. The policy of the principal who becomes a leader

with various knowledge and experience that a leader has. The principal's leadership

strategy in forming teachers is by example, discipline, instructional leadership, and

empowerment of all school residents. The example and discipline possessed by the

principal will be a good example for teachers and staff to implement these values in

daily activities at school (Majid, 2025). Integrated Islamic Schools (SIT) are two

schools that were chosen because of the strong character of the school with various

peculiarities in providing quality for the school and also the leadership in the school

that is able to make the school superior in the context of Integrated Islamic PAUD

schools, namely Al'Firdaus Integrated Islamic PAUD and Sabilal Muhradin

Integrated Islamic PAUD where both of them provide an integrated Islamic concept

based on religion and knowledge processes and the provision of a curriculum that

is according to the character of each school. This research is a qualitative

descriptive research. In qualitative research, it is greatly influenced by the

researcher's views, thoughts, and knowledge because the data is interpreted by the

researcher. In accordance with the research approach used, namely the qualitative

approach, the data collection instrument is the researcher himself which is termed

"the key instrument" (Sugiyono, 2019).