Introduction Changing Roles of Educational Managers
摘要
The effectiveness and efficacy of management practices in the future will be determined by how educational management as a discipline develops to effectively meet the needs of educational systems in light of the challenges caused by the technological, social, cultural, and economic changes that are sweeping the world in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The main difficulty facing educational management locally, regionally, and internationally in recent decades is how to effectively and creatively manage change. An educational institution is the key place to cultivate talents and provide quality education. The development of educational management will surely be the prime target for achieving remarkable results. Thus, savvy educational managers must be aware of the current cultural perspective: global and local; appropriate in-service training; global standard quality teaching and learning; making the school the center for learning; ensuring safety and security; ensuring compliance with internal and external rules and regulations; ensuring effective classroom management; etc. Education management should also develop in an orderly and efficient manner. As school managers are the veins of every level of educational organization, they should be prepared and trained to understand the pulse of present trends and challenges and change themselves accordingly. For this, they should emphasize meeting the students’ needs by social, global, and national demands.