The first is the quality of political theory. Political theory is the basic quality that leading cadres must possess. As the grass-roots leader of education, the headmaster should first talk about politics and always remain politically sober and firm. We must be familiar with educational policies and regulations, correctly implement the party's educational policy, and adhere to the correct direction of running schools. By studying political theory systematically and comprehensively, we can understand, analyze and solve problems with correct world outlook and methodology, and guide practice with scientific theory in combination with school reality. Vagueness in political theory will inevitably lead to blindness in behavior. Dialectical materialism is not a rigid dogma, but a scientific epistemology and methodology, which is a powerful theoretical weapon to guide practice. It is difficult for a headmaster to fully understand the party's line, principles and policies, let alone implement them correctly, if he does not have a certain political theory accomplishment.
The second is to have good moral cultivation. Virtue is thought, morality or moral concept. Mainly refers to people's self-restraint ability to their own behavior. Morality is the foundation of politics. Our country has always attached great importance to the personal morality of leading cadres and regarded morality as the key and core of being an official and a man. The ancients often said: Virtue without talent is close to fools, and talent without virtue is close to villains. Having both ability and political integrity has always been an important principle in selecting leading cadres. Compared with talents, morality comes first. The virtue mentioned here, for leading cadres, should not only have good personal moral cultivation, but also include party spirit cultivation, ideal pursuit and ideological realm. As the person in charge of the school, the principal is the backbone of the party's education. The party's line, principles and policies should be transformed into the conscious actions of the majority of faculty members through the exemplary role, backbone role and organizational leadership role of the principal. Therefore, as a principal, we should constantly strengthen the cultivation of party spirit, establish our prestige with integrity, unite and inspire team members and faculty with noble morality, and mobilize the enthusiasm of work, thus forming the trend of holding the moon and promoting the development of all work.
Third, we should have high cultural literacy. The professional particularity of the headmaster lies in that the main objects of his management are teachers and students, and he is the person who manages teachers, which requires the headmaster to have comprehensive cultural knowledge literacy in order to learn to be a teacher and a model. Schools are places where cultural knowledge spreads and intellectuals gather. As principals, they should be outstanding representatives of intellectuals. They should have certain knowledge of educational laws and regulations, pedagogy, psychology, educational history and educational theory, master certain knowledge of scientific management, especially educational management, administrative management, social management, laws and regulations and leadership science, be familiar with certain knowledge of social science, natural science and social life, and be able to learn from others. In terms of knowledge structure, the principal should be a versatile and comprehensive generalist. Only with a high level of knowledge can we form the headmaster's personality charm, persuasiveness and personal prestige, and provide strong support for the headmaster's decision-making and management. The only way to improve the cultivation of cultural knowledge is to persist in continuous learning, enhance confidence, cultivate sentiment and cultivate style of writing through learning, thus forming a unique temperament of being bold, elegant, gentle and exemplary, and becoming a modern principal of scholar and expert.
The fourth is to have a certain professional quality. Professional quality is the most important capital of a principal, which is mainly reflected in education, teaching and school management. In school work, the principal's primary responsibility is management. First of all, he should make a macro-strategic positioning for the development of the school, make a far-sighted decision, and be able to make a scientific judgment on the problems in the development of the school. Secondly, we should correctly handle all kinds of interests of the school, including the relationship between the principal and the team members and faculty, and mobilize all kinds of positive factors through ideological education, emotional communication, work exchange and other methods to form an overall joint force to ensure the realization of the school's goals. In addition, the principal should also have certain teaching professional quality. Education and teaching is the core of all work in the school. Principals should be proficient in teaching professional knowledge of at least one or two subjects, and also have a basic understanding of other related subjects, be able to skillfully use educational laws and become experts in education and teaching. Only with this quality can we always grasp the core work of education and teaching and let the school run its own characteristics and level.
Fifth, good psychological quality. As the general person in charge of school work, the headmaster has a lot of daily work, coupled with the high expectations of society for education, the pressure of school safety, the shortage of funds and other factors, which often lead to the excessive psychological burden of the headmaster and his spirit is always in a state of high tension. This requires the headmaster to have a healthy psychological quality and strong frustration tolerance. First of all, we must have a good mental state. We should be full of passion in our work, actively respond to challenges in a vibrant and hopeful state, put all the work ahead, and reduce the pressure brought by passive work and work mistakes. Secondly, we should be good at resolving bad emotions, learn to use an open-minded attitude, analyze problems objectively and calmly, and always maintain a balanced psychological state, so as to achieve regular, moderate and calm emotions. Third, we must have a strong will. In the face of heavy and complicated work, we should clearly understand the direction, be good at grasping the main contradictions, dare to solve difficult problems, dare to take responsibility, and constantly accumulate experience and increase our talents in overcoming setbacks and difficulties. Fourth, we should have a broad mind, establish a correct view of status, fame and fortune, and achievements, treat gains and losses correctly, do not haggle over every ounce, value personal fame and fortune over water, value education over mountains, pay more attention to dedication, take less, forget my attitude, scientific spirit and fine style, and devote ourselves wholeheartedly to school work.
(B) firmly establish six kinds of consciousness
The first is the overall situation consciousness. He who does not seek the overall situation is not enough to seek a domain. On the one hand, school is the basic unit of education. As a concrete executor of educational policies, principals should carry them out to the letter. Under the new management system, he should obey the overall situation of the city's education reform and development and creatively carry out his work within the framework of policies, laws and regulations. On the other hand, schools are an organic part of society, and principals are responsible for promoting education and serving people. He should correctly handle the relationship between schools and township governments, schools and communities, and serve, support and safeguard the overall situation with excellent work. At the same time, regarding the development orientation of the school, as a modern principal, we should think about school education under the background of international and domestic education reform and development, abandon the impetuous mood of quick success and quick success, flashy, and narrow-minded thinking of doing nothing, and actively respond to the challenges of future education with advanced ideas, open mind and advanced consciousness.
The second is service awareness. Education is a public welfare undertaking. As a public resource, school's social function is to provide quality education services for the masses. For a school, the main body of running a school is the government and the people, and the principal is the entrusted manager of the party and the government. Therefore, as a principal, we must first find out who is the real owner of the school, firmly establish the concept of serving the masses, run the school dutifully, provide high-quality educational resources for the masses, strive to run a satisfactory education for the people, and live up to the great trust of the party and the people.
The third is quality awareness. Education quality is the lifeline of school development. What does the development of the school depend on? Depend on quality. Quality is the only measure of a school's social benefits. For an enterprise, the core competitiveness is to see whether it can produce high-quality products, while for a school, the fundamental measure to evaluate it is to see whether it can cultivate high-quality talents. Under the market mechanism, there is also competition in education as a social public resource, and the core of competition is the quality of education. Of course, the quality mentioned here refers not only to the examination results, but also to the comprehensive reflection of a school's school-running characteristics, school-running taste, teaching performance, teachers' quality and social recognition. As a principal, we should establish a correct concept of quality, make clear that the quality of education is the core and other work is the guarantee, concentrate on quality, concentrate on development, and cultivate all-round high-quality talents.
The fourth is the sense of innovation. Innovation is the soul of national progress. Keeping pace with the times and being pragmatic and innovative are the will qualities that modern principals should possess. In the new century and new stage, profound changes are taking place in educational concepts, educational contents and educational forms. We should constantly improve our ideological understanding, adapt to this change quickly, and be brave and good at making innovations according to the requirements of educational practice. It is necessary to update educational concepts, educational concepts and management methods, and make bold innovations on the basis of inheriting traditions and drawing lessons from advanced experience. Of course, innovation is neither rash nor utilitarian. We must define our goals in emancipating our minds and seek breakthroughs in reform and innovation. We should base ourselves on our own reality, accurately grasp the law of educational development, develop in inheritance, innovate in development, promote work through reform, speed up development, and make the school distinctive, atmospheric, tasteful, full of vitality and tension, and enjoy extensive social recognition.
The fifth is normative consciousness. Higher education is professional education, vocational education is employment education, and primary education is normative education. How can it be a square without rules? We can't just talk about quality, nor can we narrowly understand it as just the results of cultural examinations. It is necessary to strictly implement the "Management Standards for Primary and Secondary Schools in Jiangsu Province", with special emphasis on strictly implementing the curriculum plan stipulated by the state and fully implementing the Sunshine Sports Project. Running a school should be standardized and orderly, classroom teaching and teaching management should emphasize quality, and so-called high quality should not be pursued at the expense of increasing students' academic burden and sacrificing their health.
Sixth, brand awareness. The brand mentioned here mainly refers to the characteristics of the school. As a compulsory primary school education, the core of competition is characteristic competition. People don't have me, people have me. Each of our schools has a good foundation in innovation, so we should carefully sort out and cultivate our own characteristic projects to become bigger and stronger. For example, the characteristics of calligraphy teaching in Nanyuan Primary School have evolved from an educational characteristic to a school culture, and its goal is to cultivate people into noble cultural people. When we visit a primary school, it is definitely not because of its cultural examination ranking, but because of its outstanding brand. So each of our principals should seriously reflect on what are the characteristics of your school and what efforts you have made for it. Our school is characterized by standardization, and our students are qualified for their specialties. We should make our characteristic projects more perfect, prominent and bright, and make them gradually become a mature culture.
(c) Strive to improve working ability.
Ability is the embodiment of a person's knowledge, cultivation, will and character in his work. There is a difference between knowledge and ability. Knowledge does not mean high ability. Knowledge is the foundation of ability and ability is the transformation of knowledge. As a modern headmaster, he should have many abilities. Fundamentally speaking, you should at least have the following abilities:
Ability to control the overall work. The headmaster is the core of the school management team and the backbone of a school. His duty is to organize, dispatch and coordinate all parties through insight into the overall situation, correct decision-making, and ensure that the work is standardized, healthy and orderly. The ability to control the overall situation includes three aspects: first, the ability to make decisions. The principal's leadership process is mainly the process of implementing decisions. Decisiveness in decision-making is not only an important condition for principals to achieve career success, but also an important symbol to measure the level of principals' leadership. It is not only the embodiment of a leader's wisdom, but also the embodiment of a team's collective wisdom. In the process of implementing decision-making, the principal should be good at making decisions, dare to make decisions, respond quickly to major problems affecting the development of the school and problems encountered in the management process, keep abreast of the situation, find problems, analyze causes and effects, predict trends, and make timely decisions. Of course, this kind of decision is not personal. It is necessary to collect the collective opinions of the team, be good at listening to the opinions of the departments, and make accurate judgments on the basis of combing, summarizing and analyzing and weighing the advantages and disadvantages. Scientific decision-making should have a broad mass base and a scientific and democratic basis, which not only represents the overall interests of the school, but also represents the interests of the majority of faculty and staff, and is also realistic, effective, predictable and operable. The second is organizational ability. Some principals are hands-on about the work of the school, while other team members either stand by or stay out of it. If all the work is promoted, but not promoted, it will be transferred. The reason is the lack of organizational ability. Principals should be good at stimulating internal vitality, innovating mechanisms, fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of all members of the team, so that they can perform their duties, thus forming a joint force of unity and ensuring the smooth development of all work. The third is coordination ability. Coordination and balance is the basic law of the development of things, and unbalanced and uncoordinated situations often occur. For school work, disharmony is mainly manifested in the inconsistency of work rhythm and the conflict between local interests and overall interests. These contradictions and problems affect or hinder the overall work. In the process of dealing with problems, principals should be good at grasping the main contradictions, coordinating up and down, balancing left and right, and comprehensively weighing. Specifically, first, we should coordinate the relationship with superior leaders and get support in our work. Second, we must coordinate the relationship with the deputy and fully mobilize the enthusiasm and subjective initiative of the deputy. Third, we should coordinate the relationship with the leading collective, be a good monitor, not a parent. Fourth, it is necessary to coordinate the relationship between various departments within the school, so that they can cooperate organically, keep pace and form a joint force.
The ability of scientific management. Modern management believes that the so-called management means that managers fully mobilize human, financial and material resources to carry out various production activities. For schools, we should demand quality from management and promote the improvement of education quality with scientific management. School management involves all aspects, so we should grasp the key points, combine rigidity with softness, combine leniency with severity, be steady but not stiff, and be alive but not chaotic. First, we should establish a people-oriented concept. The core of management is people, because people are the most active and energetic factor in management. Scientific management should focus on fully mobilizing people's enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, implement people-oriented thinking in all aspects of school management, establish the concept of people-oriented and teacher-centered, create an atmosphere of respecting, understanding, trusting, caring and caring for people in schools, and pay attention to and meet the needs of teachers at different levels as much as possible. Actively create a good working and living environment for the teaching staff, so that the teaching staff can feel the joy of work and have a strong sense of belonging, and constantly enhance the centripetal force and attraction of the school. Second, establish a scientific and efficient management mechanism. According to the actual situation, establish and improve various management systems, so that all the work of the school can be carried out in an orderly manner. The system is not hung on the wall. The most important thing is to implement it and make it really work. People are lazy and have shortcomings, and it is unreliable to rely on people's consciousness alone. Only when the system is really implemented can a good mechanism be formed. Third, we should pay attention to management methods. Coordinate various management factors, make overall consideration, play the piano with ten fingers, prioritize, be good at grasping major contradictions, solve major problems, and ensure the successful completion of key tasks and central tasks.
Ability to deal with emergencies. Unexpected events are unpredictable, and if they are not handled correctly in time, they will inevitably have serious consequences. Properly handling emergencies is a concentrated expression of a principal's comprehensive ability, and it is also a test of a school's usual work. In recent years, all kinds of emergencies are reflected in safety. Once there is a safety problem, it will become the focus of public attention, ranging from disciplinary action to criminal responsibility, which has caused great passivity to the overall work, so that some people exclaim that being an official has become a high-risk profession. At present, for schools, emergencies mainly focus on disputes caused by public security, fees and enrollment, as well as petitions and troubles in the reform of management system. If these problems are not solved in time, they will be passive to the overall work and bring great damage to the development of the school. To deal with emergencies, it is important to do a good job in peacetime, plan ahead and prevent problems before they happen. A levee of a thousand miles collapses in an ant nest, so we should not slacken our work and be careless. We should guard against delays, check for leaks and make up for vacancies. Only by doing real work, doing meticulous work and laying a solid foundation can we ensure that there will be no mistakes and accidents in our work. In fact, the occurrence of unexpected emergencies is by no means isolated. Liability accidents are mostly caused by inadequate ideological understanding and inability to keep up with work at ordinary times. Therefore, accidents are inevitable. As a principal, we should keep abreast of the school situation, enhance the predictability of work, actively investigate contradictions, identify problems and contradictions, and actively take effective measures to nip problems and hidden dangers in the bud. In case of unexpected events, we should be brave enough to take responsibility, keep a cool head, analyze correctly, report in time, solve them in time and handle them properly; Don't be weak in self-awareness, blame others and do nothing, which will lead to the expansion of the situation and fall into passivity.
The ability to know people and be good at their duties. Includes two aspects. First, in employing people, we should rationally allocate tasks according to the personality characteristics and business expertise of team members and middle-level cadres, and comprehensively consider factors such as age structure, personality characteristics, knowledge level, business ability and business expertise in staffing, so as to make the best use of people, complement each other's advantages and optimize the combination. Second, to cultivate reserve cadres, every principal should have the heart of loving talents, the ability to know talents, the method of using talents, the amount of talents and the position of educating people. We should be good at finding outstanding talents, training and selecting outstanding young cadres and using them boldly. We will select and enrich a group of young and middle-aged cadres with good moral quality, correct ideological style, hard work style and strong professional ability to important positions. Through training and exercise, the school has formed a reserve cadre team with different age gradients and complementary advantages, providing a solid talent guarantee for the sustainable development of the school.
Self-discipline This is one of the basic abilities that a mature leading cadre must possess. As a principal, he should be more diligent and dedicated than ordinary comrades, always pay attention to his image, always be strict with himself, be honest, be honest and be honest, and set an example. If you are honest, you can do it without doing it; Irregular and disobedient The headmaster should be an example for students and teachers to learn. In school education and daily life, he must be strict with himself and take the lead in setting an example. Principals must take the lead in doing everything that teachers and staff are required to do, and integrate education into practical actions, which will play a great role in moistening things.
First, we must strictly abide by organizational discipline, consciously accept the supervision of the masses, constantly reflect on ourselves, always think about the virtue of being an official, always think about honesty and self-discipline, always think about the harm of greed, always be patient, and constantly enhance the awareness of party spirit and self-discipline.
Second, we must strictly abide by work discipline. Handle affairs fairly, with a decent style, according to the rules, without formality, without low standards, without abuse of power, treating people and things equally and fairly, especially concerning the evaluation, promotion, appointment and welfare distribution of teachers' vital interests. Only in this way can we be completely convinced. If you talk nonsense and engage in double standards, it will inevitably lead to distraction. If the headmaster asks others, it will be difficult to convince the public, and the image in everyone's mind will be greatly reduced.
Third, we must be honest and self-disciplined. Only by preventing the delay, sounding the alarm, being healthy and being honest can we resist all kinds of temptations. Secular desires are human nature, but the key is to control your own desires, be careful in your daily life, control your heart and not be greedy; Hold your hand, don't mess with it; Mind your mouth, don't eat and drink indiscriminately; Control your legs, don't go where you shouldn't, truly be self-respecting, self-reflective, self-vigilant, and self-motivated, and always maintain a good image as an educator.