Basma Muhammad Al -Balushi
School leaders play a pivotal role in shaping the future of education, as it is the main driver for continuous development and improvement. The school leader is not just a manager, but he is an inspiring educational leader, responsible for creating a stimulating educational environment, ensuring the quality of operations and procedures, and enhancing effective communication with society.
In order for the educational leadership to be comprehensive aimed at building an integrated educational society, it must be characterized by authentic values and ambitious vision. The school leader is a good example that inspires teachers and students, and their orientation towards achieving educational and educational goals.
To ensure the role of the active school leadership in the quality of education, the school leader must be keen to monitor educational and administrative processes, to ensure the application of best practices, and to provide the necessary resources to achieve educational goals, in order to ensure the quality of proper school processes and procedures. He also has to seek to enhance communication with society by building bridges of trust and effective communication with parents and local society, listening to their opinions and proposals, and activating their role in supporting the educational process. He will see that the success of all of this will be in improving academic achievement and personal development of students, especially when providing a supportive and stimulating educational environment for students, encouraging them to critical and creative thinking, develop their personal and social skills, and prepare them to keep pace with the requirements of the labor market.
The successful school leader has many characteristics and skills that are concentrated in having a clear vision for the future of the school, and working to achieve them in deliberate steps. Its ability to inspire the work team and motivate them to change and continuously develop, its high communication skills, its ability to build positive relationships with all parties, take the right and appropriate decisions in a timely manner, work with challenges and changes with flexibility and change, and of course his constant keenness to develop his skills and knowledge constantly, and keep pace with the latest trends in the field of education.
The school leader can develop his leadership capabilities by participating in training courses and specialized workshops in educational leadership and benefit from the experiences of other leaders and learning from best practices. Reading and continuous knowledge of the latest research and studies in the field of educational leadership also contributes to raising self -efficiency and staying in the first ranks of active leaders, and of course by employing continuous self -evaluation and identifying strengths and weaknesses and working to improve them.
The values and authentic visions of school leadership can be centered on justice, integrity, cooperation, respect, tolerance, excellence, and creativity, and that the leader be able to inspire the school employees by setting an ambitious vision such as providing high quality education for all, building a promising generation capable of facing future challenges, creating an educational environment that stimulates creativity and innovation, and working to activate these values and visions with effective communication with society The school, and that it be a good example by embodying these values, involving society in setting values and implementing visions, assessing the extent of their commitment and determining the strengths and weaknesses and working to improve them.
By this we see that school leadership is not just administration, but rather a comprehensive educational leadership, dependent on authentic values and ambitious vision, and seeks to build an integrated and distinguished educational society. Effective school leadership is an investment in the future of future generations, and it is a shared responsibility between leaders, teachers, parents and the entire society, so let us together support our leaders of schools, and provide the appropriate environment for them in order to perform their tasks to the fullest.
* CEO – Jouda Al -Tamazah Educational Consulting Company
Basma Muhammad Al -Balushi
