Challenges of Educational Managers (by Sittie B.)

Reflection 1 on the First Day of Class on Management of Instructional Programs

Dr. Olga C. Alonsabe

June 22, 2012

Today's school leaders struggle to balance their roles as instructional

Leaders with the many other demands of the job. Through Improving Schools. Principals are responsible for the overall operation of their schools. Principals became more responsible for teaching and learning in their schools. In particular, their duty to monitor instruction increased along with their responsibility to help teachers improve their teaching. With this change in responsibilities, principals discovered the need to more effectively evaluate instruction and assist teachers as they worked to improve their instructional techniques. As managers, principals were responsible for financial operations, building maintenance, student scheduling, personnel, public relations, school policy regarding discipline, coordination of the instructional program, and other overall school matters.

The management role included some curriculum and instruction supervision, but overall school management was the primary role principals played. The role of the principal changed from school manager to school instructional leader and then to the school reform leader. With this shift in role focus, principals retained their management roles. Principals currently play multiple roles: school manager, instructional leader, and the leader of school reform.

Learning form the different experiences of my classmates during our first meeting I realized that in a true sense those responsibilities expected for a school principal was really a challenging role. The failure as well as the success of the school will be on your shoulders.

Given a chance and I will be a manger of an instruction, I will do my duties and responsibilities as a school instructional leader with dedication and  the hope that I can give justice to the expectation of my teachers and that is to be fair with anyone. I will be the model of every change so that they will obey me with respect. Personally form my experiences fairness among our administrators can means a lot because we don’t have this kind of treatment. We always feel bias because of the “palakasan” system in the ARMM hopefully I can eradicate this system and change it with a better one.