Personal Qualities, Professional Qualities Administrative Qualities
The post of the headmaster is of great responsibility. Generally, all the educationists are unanimously of one opinion in this respect that there must be essentially some special qualities in man for carrying out responsibilities of this position.
P. Wren:-- "Headmaster is both innate and made. There are some such qualities which headmaster acquires from nature, for instance: firmness, resourcefulness, heart touchingness and capabilities of personality making. But, inspite of these qualities, he has to become an ideal headmaster by his vocational study, experience, and learning on the basis of others."
On the basis of the above thoughts headmaster's qualities can be discussed under the following heads:--
(1)Personal Qualities
*Good Physique Liveliness
*Good Habbits and Personal Piousness of Life
*High Character
*Workmanship
*Capability of Leadership
*Sense of Sympathy
*Capacity of establishing Human Relations
*Intellectual and Emotional Qualities
*Personal, social and Ethical Qualities
(2) Professional Qualities
*Professional Knowledge
*Learning
*Loyal
(3) Administrative Qualities
*Skilful Administration
*Skilled Organiser
PERSONAL QUALITIES
*Good Physique Liveliness:-- It has been proved by the experiments that healthy mind has a high co-relation with good physique. Therefore, there should not only be good physique of headmaster notwithstanding he must be keeping vitality for Liveliness in him, because vitality provides optimism. Thus he should be active and lively.
*Good Habits and Personal piousness of Life:-- The headmaster himself should form good habits within himself. If he does not posses good habits, he cannot form good habits in his students. Along with it, his personal life should also be pious. If his personal life is not good, it will leave bad effect on his skill and success. He should follow good conduct in his personal life. He should always place high ideals before himself and he should lead his his life according to them. He should follow the ideals of "simple living and high thinking. "
*High Character:-- The headmaster should be a man of good moral character. If his character is not high, he cannot raise the level of his school. The whole of the moral at the school depends upon the character of the headmaster only.
*workmanship:-- The leader of the school should be practical. He presents the principles and ideas before the pupils and the colleagues, if he follows them himself, he would he successful in leading them. Thus the headmaster should always try to produce an example before his pupils and colleagues.
*Capability of Leadership:-- For running each organisation, there is need of a capable leader. School is also an organised society for running of which a capable leader is required. The headmaster is the leader of this organised society. Thus the headmaster should have the capacity of leadership. The headmaster has to lead such persons who are generally equal in academic qualifications. Thus there is a great difference between his leadership and that of soldiers. His leadership would be a success only when he seeks willing cooperation he has not to become a dictator, but he has to adopt democratic view by having faith in abilities and capacity of his associates.
The highest test of leadership of the headmaster is this whether he has capacity or not to motivate and lead his associates, students and guardians. By his motivating power, the students can avail all those opportunities which have been provided them in the school. By this power, the headmaster can communicate life in his colleagues, and by making guardians and other people conscious about their duties, he can benefit the interest of the education most.
*Sense of Sympathy:-- It is most essential to be the sense of sympathy in the headmaster. In the absence of it, he cannot be trustworthy of his students and associates and cannot seek their willing cooperation. The teachers and the students would not put up their difficulties and problems before him. If he would be sympathetic towards them, he would lead them successfully and they would always be ready to provide their willing cooperation to him.
*Capacity of establishing Human Relations:-- The headmaster should essentially have the ability of establishing human relations. His success or failure depends upon this ability. If he can not establish relation between teacher and teacher, student and student, teacher and student, teacher and officials and teachers and guardians he would be unable to run his school well. Because the success of school depends upon all these good relations.
*Intellectual and Emotional Qualities:-- The headmaster should possess the following intellectual and emotional qualities:--
*Ability to explain the plans.
*Research Attitude
*Conciousness towards his role.
*Industrious.
*High I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient)
*Capacity of taking initiative.
*Knowledge of students and their progress.
*Knowledge if social problems.
*Resourcefulness.
*Power of inspection.
*Understanding of individual differences.
*Knowledge of various subjects.
*Knowledge of the latest theories of education and practicals.
*Anxiety to know his own weakness and capacity to get rid of them.
*Emotionally firm.
*Free from worries and struggles.
*Motivator.
*Optimistic.
*Inspiring.
*Personal, Social and Ethical Qualities:-- In a successful headmaster, there must be the following personal, social and ethical qualities:--
*Skillfulness.
*Trustworthy.
*Creative.
*Impartial.
*Objective viewpoint.
*Self-confidence.
*Openminded.
*Regular.
*Respectful.
*Cooperating.
*Well wisher.
*Sociable citizen.
*Sympathetic.
*Suggesting.
*Honest.
*Of serving nature.
*A man of good character.
*Self-respect.
*To-realise his own mistake.
PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES
*Professional Knowledge:-- The headmaster headmaster should have the knowledge of objectives of his school and for formulation of means for their achievement, requirement and ideals of secondary level school. He must also have the knowledge of this thing,"What is importance of his school in educational system and what are its functions? " He must be acquainted with special features of social institutions of philosophy and history of educational movement, psychology and learning processes. The headmaster of secondary school must know mainly about adolescents behaviour because he lives in the contact of the boys of this age and he is to solve their problems. He should also have the knowledge of methods of school-administration, principle of formulation of syllabus, educational methods etc. In the absence of the professional knowledge, he cannot discharge his duties successfully. For keeping his knowledge up to date, he should always study professional literature.
*Learning:-- The headmaster is a leader of teachers and the society both. Being leader of the teachers, he is expected to be a learned man, so that all the teachers may respect him for his general learning. He must be specialist at least of someone branch of knowledge. Besides, for leadership, he must have knowledge of latest educational principles and practicals. He must have experience as a good teacher, because by example instead of preachings, he can make his functions more successful. In addition to this'he should always have interest in studies. He himself and of his teachers can progress only when he continues to be a student of his subject and profession.
*Loyal:-- This is not only essential for the leader of a school that he should be a man of good Character and learned man but he must also be loyal. If he would not be loyal to his profession, he would not be able to perform his duties successfully well. Thus the headmaster must have loyalty in his profession, teacher, students, human nature. In the absence of this loyalty, he can not lead successfully.
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES
*Skilful Administrator:-- The headmaster should essentially be a good administrator. For being good administrator, he should posses administrative ability. He can only be a good administrator when he is a good planner, organiser, good teacher, able to appoints other officials to arrange their functions and capable to prepare report and budget.
*Skilled Organiser:-- The headmaster should posses organizational skill. Thus, he must know the basic principle of school organisation, requirment of the society and ideals. Due to this ability, he can solve many problems relating to school organisation.
By viewing aforesaid qualities, it becomes clear, that if the headmaster does not posses the above mentioned qualities, he cannot perform the duties and liabilities of the post of the headmaster well. In the end, it can be said that to become a headmaster,there should be essentially an innocent man.
The post of the headmaster is of great responsibility. Generally, all the educationists are unanimously of one opinion in this respect that there must be essentially some special qualities in man for carrying out responsibilities of this position.
P. Wren:-- "Headmaster is both innate and made. There are some such qualities which headmaster acquires from nature, for instance: firmness, resourcefulness, heart touchingness and capabilities of personality making. But, inspite of these qualities, he has to become an ideal headmaster by his vocational study, experience, and learning on the basis of others."
On the basis of the above thoughts headmaster's qualities can be discussed under the following heads:--
(1)Personal Qualities
*Good Physique Liveliness
*Good Habbits and Personal Piousness of Life
*High Character
*Workmanship
*Capability of Leadership
*Sense of Sympathy
*Capacity of establishing Human Relations
*Intellectual and Emotional Qualities
*Personal, social and Ethical Qualities
(2) Professional Qualities
*Professional Knowledge
*Learning
*Loyal
(3) Administrative Qualities
*Skilful Administration
*Skilled Organiser
PERSONAL QUALITIES
*Good Physique Liveliness:-- It has been proved by the experiments that healthy mind has a high co-relation with good physique. Therefore, there should not only be good physique of headmaster notwithstanding he must be keeping vitality for Liveliness in him, because vitality provides optimism. Thus he should be active and lively.
*Good Habits and Personal piousness of Life:-- The headmaster himself should form good habits within himself. If he does not posses good habits, he cannot form good habits in his students. Along with it, his personal life should also be pious. If his personal life is not good, it will leave bad effect on his skill and success. He should follow good conduct in his personal life. He should always place high ideals before himself and he should lead his his life according to them. He should follow the ideals of "simple living and high thinking. "
*High Character:-- The headmaster should be a man of good moral character. If his character is not high, he cannot raise the level of his school. The whole of the moral at the school depends upon the character of the headmaster only.
*workmanship:-- The leader of the school should be practical. He presents the principles and ideas before the pupils and the colleagues, if he follows them himself, he would he successful in leading them. Thus the headmaster should always try to produce an example before his pupils and colleagues.
*Capability of Leadership:-- For running each organisation, there is need of a capable leader. School is also an organised society for running of which a capable leader is required. The headmaster is the leader of this organised society. Thus the headmaster should have the capacity of leadership. The headmaster has to lead such persons who are generally equal in academic qualifications. Thus there is a great difference between his leadership and that of soldiers. His leadership would be a success only when he seeks willing cooperation he has not to become a dictator, but he has to adopt democratic view by having faith in abilities and capacity of his associates.
The highest test of leadership of the headmaster is this whether he has capacity or not to motivate and lead his associates, students and guardians. By his motivating power, the students can avail all those opportunities which have been provided them in the school. By this power, the headmaster can communicate life in his colleagues, and by making guardians and other people conscious about their duties, he can benefit the interest of the education most.
*Sense of Sympathy:-- It is most essential to be the sense of sympathy in the headmaster. In the absence of it, he cannot be trustworthy of his students and associates and cannot seek their willing cooperation. The teachers and the students would not put up their difficulties and problems before him. If he would be sympathetic towards them, he would lead them successfully and they would always be ready to provide their willing cooperation to him.
*Capacity of establishing Human Relations:-- The headmaster should essentially have the ability of establishing human relations. His success or failure depends upon this ability. If he can not establish relation between teacher and teacher, student and student, teacher and student, teacher and officials and teachers and guardians he would be unable to run his school well. Because the success of school depends upon all these good relations.
*Intellectual and Emotional Qualities:-- The headmaster should possess the following intellectual and emotional qualities:--
*Ability to explain the plans.
*Research Attitude
*Conciousness towards his role.
*Industrious.
*High I.Q. (Intelligence Quotient)
*Capacity of taking initiative.
*Knowledge of students and their progress.
*Knowledge if social problems.
*Resourcefulness.
*Power of inspection.
*Understanding of individual differences.
*Knowledge of various subjects.
*Knowledge of the latest theories of education and practicals.
*Anxiety to know his own weakness and capacity to get rid of them.
*Emotionally firm.
*Free from worries and struggles.
*Motivator.
*Optimistic.
*Inspiring.
*Personal, Social and Ethical Qualities:-- In a successful headmaster, there must be the following personal, social and ethical qualities:--
*Skillfulness.
*Trustworthy.
*Creative.
*Impartial.
*Objective viewpoint.
*Self-confidence.
*Openminded.
*Regular.
*Respectful.
*Cooperating.
*Well wisher.
*Sociable citizen.
*Sympathetic.
*Suggesting.
*Honest.
*Of serving nature.
*A man of good character.
*Self-respect.
*To-realise his own mistake.
PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES
*Professional Knowledge:-- The headmaster headmaster should have the knowledge of objectives of his school and for formulation of means for their achievement, requirement and ideals of secondary level school. He must also have the knowledge of this thing,"What is importance of his school in educational system and what are its functions? " He must be acquainted with special features of social institutions of philosophy and history of educational movement, psychology and learning processes. The headmaster of secondary school must know mainly about adolescents behaviour because he lives in the contact of the boys of this age and he is to solve their problems. He should also have the knowledge of methods of school-administration, principle of formulation of syllabus, educational methods etc. In the absence of the professional knowledge, he cannot discharge his duties successfully. For keeping his knowledge up to date, he should always study professional literature.
*Learning:-- The headmaster is a leader of teachers and the society both. Being leader of the teachers, he is expected to be a learned man, so that all the teachers may respect him for his general learning. He must be specialist at least of someone branch of knowledge. Besides, for leadership, he must have knowledge of latest educational principles and practicals. He must have experience as a good teacher, because by example instead of preachings, he can make his functions more successful. In addition to this'he should always have interest in studies. He himself and of his teachers can progress only when he continues to be a student of his subject and profession.
*Loyal:-- This is not only essential for the leader of a school that he should be a man of good Character and learned man but he must also be loyal. If he would not be loyal to his profession, he would not be able to perform his duties successfully well. Thus the headmaster must have loyalty in his profession, teacher, students, human nature. In the absence of this loyalty, he can not lead successfully.
ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITIES
*Skilful Administrator:-- The headmaster should essentially be a good administrator. For being good administrator, he should posses administrative ability. He can only be a good administrator when he is a good planner, organiser, good teacher, able to appoints other officials to arrange their functions and capable to prepare report and budget.
*Skilled Organiser:-- The headmaster should posses organizational skill. Thus, he must know the basic principle of school organisation, requirment of the society and ideals. Due to this ability, he can solve many problems relating to school organisation.
By viewing aforesaid qualities, it becomes clear, that if the headmaster does not posses the above mentioned qualities, he cannot perform the duties and liabilities of the post of the headmaster well. In the end, it can be said that to become a headmaster,there should be essentially an innocent man.
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