Salvador, Frans caroline D.

Samson, Nikka
Leadership Responsibilities of the Principal

Leadership
Is the practice of bringing a group of individuals in an
institutions towards the attainment of a clear objective goal.
Role VS Responsibilities
Roles
Are the positions team members assume or the parts that they
play in a particular operation or process.
Responsibilities
Are the specific tasks or duties that members are expected to
complete as a function of their roles.
Principal
Is someone who is the leader of an entire community within a
school. He or She is responsible for managing the major
administrative tasks and supervising all students and teachers.
Responders Initiators

Principal

Managers

Responders
- See the roles as mainly administrative
- Make decisions in terms of immediate issues
- Strive for strong personal relations with staff

Initiators
- Have a clear decisive long-range policies and goals for
their school
- Are prepared to take the lead and will make things happen
if they are in the best interest of the school
- Have a strong expectations from students, teachers, and
even themselves
Managers
- Provide basic support to staff
- Keep teachers informed about decisions
- Do not typically initiate change but will follow through if
given a high priority of other

Principal Responsibilities
1. Shaping a vision of academic success for all students.
Having high expectations for all is one key to closing the
achievement gap between advantaged and less advantaged
students
2. Creating a climate hospitable to education.
Principals play a major role in developing a “professional
community” of teachers who guide one another in improving
instruction
3. Cultivating leadership in others
A central part of being a great leader is cultivating leadership
in others
4. Improving Instruction
Effective leaders view data as a means not only to pinpoint
problems but to understand their nature and causes
5. Managing people, data, and processes.
The principal was good at pulling together all the pieces, not
leaving us to feel we were working in isolation