How to Promote International Level of Schooling If I were Head Master

Everyone wants to be better. The whole world strives to better. Therefore, Indonesia doesn’t want to be follower. Indonesia also wants to be a leader in the world. Then, how to make Indonesia be a leader?

One way to be a leader is the development in the quality of education. So, the young generation will improve and can give active contribution. The teacher’s competence is one of the factors that very important in this strive. To develop teacher’s competence can be done by the optimal role of the headmaster as educator, manager, administrator, supervisor, leader, work climate maker, and entrepreneur.    

But, we can see the trouble that often seen in education department is the weakness of the headmaster. This weakness can be happen because low skill and low of the education leader knowledge. In this globalization mode, it’s very easy to find the school that offer programs with overseas curriculum. And finally, the headmaster must be able to fulfill request and hope from the society. All of the challenges make the role and the function of headmaster become very important for the development of that education department.

How to Promote International of Schooling by develop the role of headmaster

To promote international of schooling can be done by any element of education. The headmaster as a person who has the highest responsibility about teaching learning process in the school must understand what the school goal and how to achieve it. The headmaster can encourage the teacher so the teacher has high competition in compete to be international schooling. The headmaster also have to encourage the student to study hard so the student have proper (high) quality to said international level student.  

The role of the headmaster can be description such that:

1.      Headmaster as an educator

Teaching learning process is the main of education process and the teacher as a major curriculum developer in the school. Headmaster that have high commitment and focus in the development of curriculum and teaching learning process surely will be give high attention in the teachers’ competence and also will try to facilitate and encourage the teacher to develop their competence.

If I become the headmaster, I will actively encourage the teacher to follow in teacher training that can improve the competence of the teacher. I also try to actively joint in giving education to the student.  

2.      Headmaster as manager

As a manger, the manager has to have competence and major ability in managerial such as ability in making a plan, ability in organize the source (the teacher and the student), and ability in doing activity.

The headmaster has to have ability in making a plan, whether short term, midterm or long term plan. The principle of a good planning is to aim at question: What will do?; Who will do?; When it will do?; Where it can be done?; and How to do that? This detail will be the key of headmaster success.  But, the headmaster also has to have ability in doing activity in what he planned before. It will be useless if there is a good planning but not good in implementation

If I become a headmaster, I will try to manage all of my mission to get my vision.

3.      Headmaster as administrator

Especially in manage financial, to develop teacher competence, it will not release from cost. If I become the headmaster, I will allocate enough budget for developing teacher competence and also for developing student quality (maybe to join in a competition).

4.      Headmaster as supervisor

If I become a headmaster, to know how far the teacher ability in doing teaching process, I will check/come to class to see teaching learning process, especially in the method and the media that used by the teacher and also the student activity in learning process. From the supervision, I will know the weakness and strong point of the teacher in teaching learning process. I can also find the solution to fix the weakness and improve the strong point.

5.      Headmaster as a leader

Leadership that had by the headmaster is an activity of the headmaster to influence the teacher, the staff, the student and the society to support the school programs. The ability to influence people the other people is supported by the strong point of the headmaster itself, whether in personality or the wide knowledge of the person who influenced.

The leadership of the headmaster has to motivate:

a)      The teacher

To arrange the programs, doing the programs, doing an evaluation, doing analysis in the learning result and doing remedy with full of responsibility.

b)      The staff

To doing well administrative, caring the facilitate (building and other gods) with responsibility

c)      The student

To study regularly with full conscience and have future oriented

d)      The parents and the society

To be able actively participated in the development of the school.

Leadership can be done well, if the headmaster has a good relationship with the other. If I become a headmaster, I will:

a)      Give a good example (whether in personality or professionalism) so can inspiring people around me

b)      Understanding the society culture

c)      Have good mentally

d)      Have a tolerance in mistakes

e)      Not make a personal conflict

f)       Lead by positive approach.

6.      Headmaster as work climate maker

The culture and conducive work climate will make the teacher be motivated to show their work properly. Therefore, to make conducive work climate, I will considering about:

a)      The teacher will work better if the situation is fun

b)      Declare the aim clearly, so the part of the department know it

c)      Gift is better than punishment

7.      Headmaster as entrepreneur   

The headmaster that has strong entrepreneurship will be brave to make an innovation in her school, include the thing that related with teaching learning process and the development of the teacher. As a headmaster that have entrepreneurship base, I will try to find, what innovation that can make my school deserve to be international school.