Advice to Teachers in becoming a Principal

Apart from the roles of a principal, such as learning, leading, excelling and monitoring....any other specific roles are ?

Is the job difficult or different?

Even some quality Teachers capable of being leadership find it hard and reject the opportunities because it has nothing to do with instruction.

I learned from my interactions with teachers across our country,

The position was still rejected by the reason...

It has nothing to do with instruction
The job is different from teaching undoubtedly but feeling of difficulty is an individual matter. It’s difficult for those who don’t know the knack of balancing different roles and satisfying for those who enjoy it.

This role is specifically connected to the soul. What we call it as satisfaction

A teacher loves instruction in the classroom

Truly, a leadership qualities are out of box thinking, not connected with qualifications and experiences.

First and foremost we must remember that a leader is one who knows the way , goes the way and shows the way. A successful principal ( not necessarily a good one) must be able to identify a bunch of talented and multitasking teachers and entrust them with certain key responsibilities but keep an eagle eye on them to avoid backstabbing. This job must be done with utmost impartiality to avoid alienating others. Some of them should be kept changing every two three years or as and when fresh talent joins the school.

He must sincerely promote talent and act as a strong bridge between staff and management.
Collective and department wise meetings will not only help him put his point across and get a genuine feedback. He must be able to convince parents body that their wards are in safe hands through his interpersonal skills.

He must have good communication skills and address morning assembly in immaculate English on any topic under discussion in the assembly extemporaneously.

He must maintain good but safe relationships with the students by  going to their classrooms and chatting with them informally.

With management of the school

There are certain well founded reasons for the management to be uncooperative. I’ll try to enumerate them one by one
1) The management is not getting positive feedback about the head from various sources like - parents, students or their own favourite teachers planted among the staff permanently. The head should identify such elements and take them into confidence without compromising with principles.
2) Communication gap with the management and failure to win them over to his/ her own side on certain issues and administrative decisions.
3) Differences among the members of the management themselves and head’s failure to strike a balance.
4) Failure to remain heads and shoulders above new and upcoming schools.
5) Managements feeling that fresh blood needs to be inducted on a lower salary as the old head has become too heavy monetarily and influentially.

This is main attraction towards the teaching job.

In the same way what shall be the attraction that brings a teacher to be promoted to the leader level subjected to missing nothing about the instruction which a teacher believes for job satisfaction.

As a leader, teachers are always practicing their art and learning how to improve their techniques. They listen in class for opportunities to teach. One student’s question can drive an entire lesson plan from which all students will benefit. Teachers are not looking for short answers. They look for explanations that present several concepts and perspectives to the students

In a word we can say
Building the quality of instruction

1. A leader who involves in improving the quality of instructions are satisfied with their leadership qualities.
2. Seek out the best preparation for instructional management, for organizational development, for change management - for these things that we know matter. Be aggressive about finding the right support and training for yourself.
3 collaborate, collaborate, collaborate.
Go into this with the idea that, 'I'm going to build a team. It's not going to just have to be me. My job is to really find the expertise and the skills and the abilities of the people that I work with, cultivate those, glue them together.

You will be both a more successful principal and you will be a saner principal who has at least a little bit of a life beyond all of the effort that you put into the work in the schools."