효과적인 학교를 위한 수업지도성의 과제 = Tasks of Instructional Leadership for Effective School

국문 초록 (Abstract)

효과적인 학교에 대한 연구나 교육의 질 개선에 관한 연구들은 공통적으로 교장의 강력한 수업지도성이 좋은 학교를 만드는데 가장 중요한 요인이라고 지적하고 있다.
교장들은 수업, 교육과정, 교직원 전문성 개발이 학교교육에서 가장 우선적 활동임을 인정하고는 있으나 현실적으로는 학교시설 및 프로그램 행정, 학생훈육, 교사와의 관계에 많은 시간을 사용하고 있다. 교장은 학교교육의 기술적 중핵이 되는 교수학습을 개선하고, 구성원들의 노력을 목표중심으로 응집시키며, 구성원들이 높은 기대를 가지고 일할 수 있게 하기 위하여 수업지도성을 발휘해야 한다.
수업지도성은 사람과 과정을 다룰 수 있는 인간적 기술과, 수업과 교육성과를 연결시킬 수 있는 전문적 기술, 그리고 변화와 개선을 이끌어 갈 수 있는 경영적 기술을 필요로 한다.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The efforts to improve educational quality and its relevance to social need have directed the attention of educators and the public toward impoving the quality of instructional leadership. Traditionally, the Korean school administrator has been concerned with the implementation of national program requirements, as managerial officers rather than as creative leader. There is a general agreement among educators that Korean education is suffering from ineffective instructional leadership.
Much of the relevant literature identifies principal's responsibility as the entire set of managerial and instructional functions. Conflicts always take place between the desire to lead in instruction and learning and the responsility to operate school smoothly through the proper administration and management.
Even though the major concerns of school are educational program, curriculum and instruction, teaching and learning, and supervision and evaluation, resent trends pressing administrators to assume more managerial roles, as the consequence, principals spend most of their time on management details and they act mainly as business managers and are often strong advocates of the status quo. Many educators generally agree that upgrade the quality of education as one of the most important outcomes of an effective instructional leadership. Without this leadership, the quality education so desperately needed will hardly be assured.
The instructional leadership must demonstrate certain competencies if the requirement of the position are to be fulfilled. The principal must understand and implement educational program and curriculum development, identify and apply effective instructional strategies, run a business efficiently, provide high learning climate, develop a supportive work environment, establish positive expectations and standards and develop effective evaluation system.