The Role of Principal

By Dr. Sultan Muhammad Khan

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Principal is the most important person in a school. Every thing depends on him. The importance of the principal and viewing him as a leader is not a new concept. If a principal is a good leader, the school will have success stories. A good principal is do not afraid others people skills and wisdom but he use there skills and wisdom for the improvement of institution. It is the quality of a leader to share leadership with others and turn them in to good leader from them. Principal is not an instructional person, he did not teach he supervise, he guide other how to teach, what to teach and when to teach.

1.                  Shape staff roles for teachers and allocate time for meetings.

2.                  Keep the school's goals head of all things and try to achieve these goals

3.                  Works closely with distract education office to ensure the school remain on the right track to achieve goals.

4.                  principal create budget for annual spending and repair of school if any, also create schedule for school which is best for teacher and teaching learning process.

5.                  Ensure to achieve academic expectations, and fulfill the challenging curriculum requirements and it objectives,

6.                  Create team of teachers to monitor the school performance and create future leader for school administration.

7.                  Build strong relationships between teachers, students and community.

8.                  Keep discipline in school.

9.                  Supervising teaching from time to time by different means.

·         Evaluation of students

·         Help teacher for more reflective and insightful about their methods of teaching.

·         Observe classroom teaching.

10.              The principal role is to monitor student progress and assessment of student knowledge according to objectives of curriculum.

11.              Promoting collaborative problem solving and open communication

12.              Collecting data, analyzing data, and use that data to identify school needs

13.              Implementing and monitoring the school improvement plan

14.              Plan Strategies for classroom management and teachers to monitor student understanding and academic progress.

15.              Introduce tested Research-based practices in school for improvement in the performance of teachers and students.

16.              Introduce multiple methods of teaching in school.

17.              Collaboration with stakeholders in the process of school improvement 

18.              Communicates and share school vision, goals for the future and progress for the attainment of goals to parents, community and staff members.

19.              Recognizes the contribution of parents and community in the process of ongoing school activities and celebrates it on parent’s day to motivate the community members.

20.              Nurtures and develops the leadership capabilities of staff, parents and community members.

21.              Identify the weakness of staff members and plan various training course for them to improve their skills in that particular area.

22.              Identify performance instruction indicator that link to achieve key goals and objectives.