Correct Answer - Option 3 : Provides leadership in school activities
A Headmaster is an organizer, leader, governor, director, guide, and coordinator of school programs. Schools become great, not because of the magnificent buildings but because of the effective and efficient Headmasters. Headmaster in a school is like a spring in the watch, a wheel in the machine, and an engine in the steamship.
A Headmaster in a school is vital to school administration. He/she is the leader for both administrative and instructional processes and a leader to all the subgroups in the school, working for the achievement of the goals.
Hence, it is clear that the chief responsibility of Headmaster is to provides leadership in school activities.
There is a difference between Principal and headmaster:
- The principal is a term used for the person who is in charge of a higher secondary or senior secondary school while the headmaster is in charge of the primary block of a higher secondary school.
- Further, a headmaster mostly reports to a principal when both the post exists in an institute and the converse never holds.
Let us elaborate on these roles by understanding the activities that a Headmaster preforms in schools.
- He plans and organizes school activities,
- Allocates duties to staff and non-teaching staff,
- Maintains relationship with parents, community, and Government,
- Develops networking with other schools,
- Acquaints himself with recent trends in technology and information,
- Organizes social activities,
- Procures infrastructure and materia1 resources,
- Mobilizes available resources for the development of the school,
- Visualizes future of the school in the society,
- Coordinates different school activities,
- Appraises performance of the teaching staff, non-teaching staff, and students, and
- Organizes staff meetings on various aspects for decision-making.
