Principal’s Management Strategy

Abstract

The term principal’s management refers to the procedures, style, strategies and instructional techniques principals use to manage students’ behavior and learning activities. Effective principals’ management strategies create an environment that can be conducive for both teaching and learning, while ineffective principals’ management strategies often create chaos. Teachers are often faced with some challenges from a student or the entire class that makes them to find new ways of dealing with the situations. The school setting has an evolving nature and teachers have responsibilities as they are required to create a safe learning environment for students. This is an overwhelming responsibility though it is not totally impossible. The interaction between the teachers and students or group of students is hindered due to a variety of internal and external factors within learning context, these factors enable teachers to use and apply some specific skills and strategies to maintain order in the school environment in most case a head teacher specific style may not help or may not be necessary suitable for all school environment he/she must learn to be selective to use the most appropriate styles. Teachers can enhance the success of their style when they combine them with other strategies so as to overcome disruptive behaviours such as disruptive talking inaudible responses, sleeping in school, poor attendance, cheating in exams, unwillingness to speak in the target language (Salzer and Morling. 2000).