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校长在专业发展中的角色

教育家列出的‘成绩差距’的现象最近几年在我们学校已经变成最关心的话题。那些学的好的学生总是考的成绩很好，然而那些大多数学习慢的人，却有着低水平的成绩。在我们管理大会上，总是会讨论着个话题。但是一直没能找到解决减少成绩差距问题的方法。作为学校的领导者，激发鼓励学生的我，在学校管理中做我的本科研究期间使我在这次课程中呈现这个问题。我一直深入的思考为什么学习好的与学习差的之间的差距会不断增加，而老师们对于这个问题却是无能为力。大多数情况下，老师经常会责备成绩差的，同时来自团体，特别是父母的压力也很大，父母也是为了想他们孩子的成绩能提升，这让我又深入研究这个问题去降低这种差距提高成绩。

除次之外，我们国家的新教育政策的改革迫使每个学校每年都要通过一定的规模提升它的成绩水平。在未来这个都可以作为每个学校的参考。这种管理政策的改革让作为学校校长的我考虑激发老师在班里占大多数的低成绩的同学中进行更高效的工作。为了这样一个目标，我觉得专业发展是最有效的途径。

Role of the principal concerning the professional development

The phenomenon of ‘achievement gap,’ as it is termed by Educationalists, has become a big concern in my school in recent years. Students who have been learning well showed a good improvement in their achievements. However, the slow learners, who are the majority, showed a very low level of achievement. In our management meetings this issue always comes up for discussion. But a concrete solution to the problem of closing the achievement gap has not been reached. Being the head of the school and the motivation and encouragement I have received while doing my Postgraduate Diploma in school management led me to take on this issue in this course. I have been seriously thinking on why this gap between slow learners and better ones is increasing and teachers are unable to do much about it. Most often teachers try to put blame on the students’ side for lower achievements. At the same time, increased pressure from the community, especially parents, for improving the results of their children led me to look into this issue to reduce this gap and improve achievement.

In addition to this the changed educational policy of the new government in my country forces every school to raise its achievement level by a certain scale from year to year, which will be considered in any type of assistance for the school in the future. This policy of the government made me, as the principal of the school; think about motivating teachers to work more effectively among the low achievers, who are the majority in the classrooms, to improve their academic achievements. For this purpose I believe professional development is the only effective tool.

Another factor which leads my interest in this issue as a principal is that recently we have faced so much competition from the neighbouring schools in our province in increasing the student enrolment. Parents are so concerned with the school’s performance in admitting their children. So the school started to take effective steps in improving the academic achievement of their students. In my introspection of introducing innovative measures I started thinking much more about improving the skill and efficiency of the teaching staff and creating a positive attitude among teachers for taking up new instructional strategies. Thus, my interest in this issue of professional development is in closing the gap developed.

Moreover, as a leader I believe it is my part to initiate some influence on teachers and other school communities to work together to close this gap. I took this as a challenge. I am so keen on learning what skills and qualities a principal should have to take this responsibility of professional development of teachers for reducing the achievement gap. I will sincerely look into my capacity and weakness in this matter while writing this dissertation and try to strengthen my abilities. In gene