Using Effective Educational Management in the Working Process of School Principal as a Leader

Abstract

The presented work reflects on the importance of educational management in modern pedagogy and the current developments in school life, which demands a new educational approach. From its side it is reflected in the role of school leaders. Paper suggests that the strong educational system and effective educational policy management is a key point in forming a highly qualified school principal. First the paper examinees various skills and responsibilities of school principal, one of which is strengthening teachers‘ professional development. The article offers an assessment scale for school principals’ and a research done within Georgian school principals, namely in Akhaltsikhe and Ajara region. The results showed that the component of caring of teacher development got the lowest scores. According to the empirical research results the paper comes to the conclusion that the school leader is a person with a crucial importance for constant development of educational process which includes teacher development and with particular leadership skills can achieve the better outcome in this direction. The paper concludes by offering a number of recommendations arising from the analyses.