When we look into the system that school teachers status are separated as teacher, assistant principal and principal, school teachers promotion means efficient teachers to be reborn into a capable administrator. Inside this kind of teacher promotion s...
When we look into the system that school teachers status are separated as teacher, assistant principal and principal, school teachers promotion means efficient teachers to be reborn into a capable administrator. Inside this kind of teacher promotion system structure, training for the certificate of assistant principal is an educational mechanism to fill up the gap between the two. But still, training for the certificate of assistant principal is criticized to the fact that it is not insufficient for the assistant principal to develop its role and to do its job at the field.
The fundamental problem is that the assistant principal's job is vague. There is no specific provision about the assistant principal's job and as it's position is misty in the system, the assistant principal's role is influenced upon the principal's discretion. As the agreement between today's assistant principals role and job is vague, the isolation of the field and contents caused the training for the certificate to be criticized. In this study, with this critical mind we will analysis about the educational needs of elementary school assistant principal and the relationship between training curriculum for the certificate of assistant principal and assistant principal's job.
First, through the questionnaire we will look into the importance of assistant principal's job at school and actual performance, and then analysis the educational needs and its order of priority. In this study, as we assumpt the gap between the desirable situation and the actual performance as a need which can be narrowed by the education(training for the certificate), we can name the gap 'educational needs'. And to compare the importance of assistant principal's job and actual performance gap relatively, we will draw the decision making on the priority order matrix to see the priority. From the majority needs the main and important needs have been ranked in high priorities. We will analysis the educational needs and priority about the six job station and then look into each job station comparing its job relatively.
Second, by looking into educational needs and drawn priority, we will present the training curriculum for the certificate of assistant principal's real state, controversial issues and implication of the desirable direction. By analyzing the object of curriculum and subject by teaching material and the number of lecture hours, we will look at the relationship how the recent training for the certificate of assistant principal has effected the assistant principal's job accomplishment. With the first analysis result, considering the priorities of each job educational needs, we have seen whether the subject of training curriculum for the certificate has been organized and if its subject contents are substantial. Also, the implication of how the training curriculum for the certificate of assistant principal should be improved has been presented considering the characteristic of priority.
The result of the analysis in the study and the topical point given to the training curriculum for the certificate of assistant principal based on the result of the analysis is as followed.
First, at the result on importance of the job and actual performance which the assistant principal's feel, it shows there are significant differences between the importance of job and actual performance in all job station. And also, from each job station there is a tendency of significant differences between the importance of job and actual performance. The assistant principal has various roles and jobs to perform, therefore this study has showed the priory and the educational needs through the importance of assistant principal's various job and actual performance. The training curriculum for the certificate of assistant principal should be designed satisfying these assistant principal's educational needs.
Second, from the object of curriculum and subject organization which was considered to analysis on the relationship between the training curriculum for the certificate of assistant principal and job, it is considered to be positive to the fact that the object includes the assistant principal's job station. But still, it has been analysed that there are differences in each job educational needs and priority compared to subjects, number of lecture hours and teaching materials at the training curriculum for the certificate of assistant principal. Considering the educational needs and priority, there should be an effort in establishing new subjects and re-examining the education contents, while operating a training for the certificate.
This study has analysed mainly on subjects, number of lecture hours and teaching materials at the training curriculum to discuss the estrangement of training for the certificate and assistant principal's job. Therefore, unfortunately there are limited boundaries which this study do not show such as teaching method, program schedule and the instructors. As there have been discussions and analysis about a research on satisfaction and instructional media reported, with this study about training for the certificate, I hope to see more detailed and abundant results.