Beginning the Assistant Principalship by Daresh John C.;

Author:Daresh, John C.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 3032331
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2004-04-19T00:00:00+00:00

If you were to provide some feedback to Gabe at this point in his career, what might you suggest? ____________________________________

* * *

* * *

* * *

* * *

As we noted in the first chapter, being an assistant principal is not always a glamorous educational job. In fact, there are times when it may seem to you that it is not even truly a leadership position in education. Much of your time is spent reacting to people and situations. Teachers expect you to carry their concerns “up to the principal” while you still remain loyal to those who are working in classrooms. Your principal expects loyalty and willingness to do whatever duties deemed necessary. All of this may seem to be contradictory to your initial image of what being a leader is supposed to be about. Frustration often mounts as the hours available in a day to accomplish everything that you want to do and are asked to do by others begin to dwindle.

This chapter is meant to help you understand your role more completely as a responder to the expectations of others. No doubt you are a bright, capable, energetic, and ambitious educator. Now, you are an assistant principal, and like Gabe Carter you find yourself in a school administration job in which you get some of the most challenging duties imaginable. You are the person who listens to complaints. You deal with most of the student discipline problems in your school. Often, you are the person who is assigned the task of contacting parents about problems with their child’s behavior, low test scores, or many other issues that are often really quite unpleasant. While you take care of these things happening in your school, the principal seems to get most of the credit—even though you, the teachers, and the staff did all the work. But the fact is, the principal may get credit when things go well but also get the blame when things do not go as planned.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.