Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary

Plan, direct, or coordinate the academic, administrative, or auxiliary activities of kindergarten, elementary, or secondary schools.

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Athletic Director; Curriculum and Instruction Superintendent; Curriculum Director; Elementary Principal; K-12 Principal (Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade Principal); MS Principal (Middle School Principal); School Administrator (School Admin); School Superintendent; SPED Director (Special Education Director); Superintendent

Tasks

• Counsel and provide guidance to students regarding personal, academic, vocational, or behavioral issues.
• Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities, policies, and student behavior or learning problems.
• Observe teaching methods and examine learning materials to evaluate and standardize curricula and teaching techniques and to determine areas for improvement.
• Determine the scope of educational program offerings, and prepare drafts of course schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
• Enforce discipline and attendance rules.
• Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff.
• Collaborate with teachers to develop and maintain curriculum standards, develop mission statements, and set performance goals and objectives.
• Set educational standards and goals, and help establish policies and procedures to carry them out.
• Evaluate curricula, teaching methods, and programs to determine their effectiveness, efficiency, and use, and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
• Plan and lead professional development activities for teachers, administrators, and support staff.
• Create school improvement plans, using student performance data.
• Determine allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment, and authorize purchases.
• Direct and coordinate activities of teachers, administrators, and support staff at schools, public agencies, and institutions.
• Prepare and submit budget requests and recommendations, or grant proposals to solicit program funding.
• Plan and develop instructional methods and content for educational, vocational, or student activity programs.

Knowledge

• Education and Training
• Administration and Management
• English Language
• Customer and Personal Service
• Administrative
• Psychology
• Personnel and Human Resources
• Computers and Electronics
• Mathematics
• Public Safety and Security
• Therapy and Counseling
• Communications and Media

Skills

• Active Listening
• Learning Strategies
• Reading Comprehension
• Speaking
• Writing
• Critical Thinking
• Active Learning
• Monitoring
• Mathematics

Abilities

• Oral Comprehension
• Written Comprehension
• Oral Expression
• Speech Clarity
• Written Expression
• Deductive Reasoning
• Problem Sensitivity
• Inductive Reasoning
• Speech Recognition
• Fluency of Ideas
• Information Ordering
• Category Flexibility
• Near Vision
• Originality
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Flexibility of Closure
• Far Vision
• Memorization
• Speed of Closure
• Selective Attention