A Proposed Conceptual Framework for Basic Competencies of Today's School Administrators

• In Event: School Principals' Competency, Efficacy, and Practices

Abstract

The complexities of today’s world and the position of school in the present social and political context demand certain competencies from school administrators. This paper seeks to investigate the updated basic professional competencies expected from a school administrator today and to categorize competencies functionally in administration and leadership dimensions within theoretical lenses.A conceptual framework was constructed by using theory synthesis to conceptualize the phenomenon with multiple perspectives: Katz’s skills approach model and Mumford’s model combined with the recent leadership studies and literature on new skills emerging from political and social needs. The framework includes technical and managerial, conceptual, and human skills and allows for the leadership, vision, cultural awareness, inclusiveness, conflict management competencies required in today’s schools, fully categorized.

Author

• Gulnur Ak Küçükçayır, independent researcher