These are the important principles for self development.
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is a pre-requisite for the character. Leader
must assess his intellectual professional interests and needs. His interests
must revolve round his educational institution and professional needs. He
should be aware that what are his potentials? Where his strengths lie is? What
are his drawbacks? He thinks over his limitation and powers that how much tough
time he can give to his own self. How much tolerance he has? He keeps in mind
the social values, welfare of the society. One administrator comments that
truth is my strength.
Self-advocacy
The beneficiaries of status quo or chaos do not bear the
change. At this juncture, he has to explain his behavior, position and task before
high officials, community and teachers, or stakeholders. For this purpose he
takes the help of results which he shows in curriculum, extra-curriculum and
co-curriculum activities. He expresses his and organization’s needs, his future
field of priorities, and ambitions, make his own as well as his high
authorities with prestige. He shows his scarification of self-rights.
Self-confidence
Self-confidence is the most vital quality of educational
leader. He must have a confidence of his own that he is able to get determined
objectives or his department, nation, society and above all young generation.
If this conviction, confidence is raised above to the level of faith with God
fearing, he will certainly provide best people to society. This confidence is
the source of his success.
Decision making
Decision making is a complex skill. For this purpose we need
planning, application of planning. He should not consider himself that his
logic has final authority. He should take help from the past. Design best type
of planning and choose best plans, it will lead him surely to success. Decision
making surely plays a fundamental role in the development of a leader. Lack of
decision power will earn for him an ill repute. Therefore, this task must be done
with deep contemplation, delicacy, and high level of understanding. The whole
responsibility rests on the leader, consequences but it is not adequate to
follow particular persons blindly. He should take trust on his perception.
Independent performance
Educational leader on the one hand, is bound
to take the help of other’s professional skills; on the other hand it is
essential for him to take initiative until the work does not reach to its
logical end
He should adopt self-management strategies. He should remain
dependent on his self, the dependence on others as expectations lead a leader
to utter failure. Therefore, he must observe independent performance, and learn
continuously.
Self-evaluation
Work of monitoring is part of duties of educational leader
he is examining his and staff’s performance. After the completion of the plan,
the performance of the whole team is before him. But in perspective of his
overall progress, he can sense the performance of his own, his efforts to
achieve ends visible before him. He should think over this question that if
some persons are set aside from the plan, will he be able alone to get required
results. For this purpose he must take an evaluation about his performance
regularly so that he can assess his own performance, and he continues his
journey towards a better way.
Adjustment
Leader must adjust and adapt himself with the changes in
objectives, standards. He should have knowledge of the past, present and
future. This understanding increases in him foresightedness, wisdom and
pre-planning. This makes his wok more easy, and disciplined. This also exposes
to him the merits and demerits of his planning.
Self-improvement
Self-improvement is an ideological dream, to which a few
leaders of the world were able to reach, but every leader involves in its
struggle. To accomplish the self is the sole need of a leader by which he gets
two destinations such as his own personal elevation and accomplishment of his
nation’s or organizational objectives. Some leaders viewed it a sacred duty to
enhance the self and to expose one’s potentials.
Goals and vision
Every leader determines his goals and objectives. He
inculcates himself those skills which help him in the achievement of
objectives. This ability leads to self-reliance, empowerment with the perspective
of global village.
Safe-environment
Safe and secure comfortable environment plays a positive
role for educational process, organization, staff and students; this
environment is both material and psychological. This later is very important.
It is an environment where everyone who does hard work feel respect, trust and
self-confidence. Where it is easy to get educational objectives, to materialize
one’s ideas and it is a source of good reputation.
Equality and justice
It is very necessary for a teacher to acquire the objective
of equality and justice. Until he removes the discrimination of rich and poor,
young and elder, white and black, he is not able to get success and reputation.
Acceptance of change
World is changing very rapidly. Research and technology,
innovation has changed the scenario of the world drastically. Now the principle
of ‘life-long learning’ is stressed by scholars. The leader who does not adapt
himself with increasing change will remain backward and not able to lead his
people. Therefore knowledge of change and skill to decide accordingly is now
fundamental pre-requisite. At this juncture leader must know his values and
what change will happen in them due to the acceptance of change. To create a
consciousness among the students about the change, they become useful citizens
of their society. If they do some job, they will be productive and beneficial
for family and country. They also train their students about the modern concept
of civic sense.
Student centered environment
Students are the center of environment in school, because
school teachers, syllabus all are formed for the students. Therefore, students
have the status of VIPs. It is the leader who develops a sense of respect and
self-esteem among the students and teachers. Self-respect is the important
aspect of human psychology. If students get respect from their schools, they
will enhance respect in society. They are the future and the object of all
educational activities. Therefore, it is essential to inculcate in them a sense
of honor and importance.
Guidance and participation
Leader of the school has to provide resources for school.
The means of these resources are society and community. The concept of
participation believes in bottom to top cycles of development. On the
gross-root level community knows better about their own problems and they are
more concerned and curious about their solution. Therefore, it is expected that
their direct participation in framing the productive environment of their own
children is very pragmatic.
Communication skills
To communicate effectively is the fundamental need of a
teacher as head of the institution. He has to communicate ideas,
subject-matter, lecture in meeting with teachers, students, conduct seminar,
conferences, interviews, conversation etc.
For this purpose he has to know various inter-personal, intra-personal
communication skills with short or large gathering. Many differences emerge in
the lacking of this skill, which cause disruption and conflict in the
organization.
0 comments:
Post a Comment