The New Role and Competency of the School Administrator for Risk Management(Classroom-Management at the Turning Point)

Abstract

In the light of the special theme of the journal, the critical situations of school management in dealing with 'disruption of classes' (gakkyu houkai) are presented. The necessary competency and role of the school administrator to cope with the problems are also discussed from the risk management perspective. In view of the fact that schools open to the outside can make progress with the educational cooperation of home, school and local community, and that plans for the classroom educational activities can been enriched if a school is open inside, it is necessary to organize open classes. There are two issues for school management to overcome the crisis in schools: (1) schools should plan the system that could lead to the better educational cooperation of home, school and local community, and the process of planning, implementation, evaluation should be functioned concretely in accordance with the condition of school; (2) in developing attractive educational activities, which make use of teachers' professionality, the integration of the competency of teachers as a whole, the cooperation of home and community and the enhancement of the educational strength of school should be promoted. This calls for the new role and competency of the school administrator, that is to say, as an open school administrator he/she must be possessed of the competency for receiving, transmitting, and processing various but meaningful information as well as sharing new knowledge about schools with teachers, parents, other schools and institutions.