Newly Located Positions and Organizational Capacity of Schools(Organizational Capacity of Schools and Educational Administration)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the possibility of newly located positions in school, which are registered in the act of school education in 2007 suchas fuku principal (vice principal), shukan teacher (senior manager) and shido teacher (mentor teacher). An analysis of the recruitment for these positions and their respective career paths, revealed that the vice principal is often treated practically as head teacher (kyouto teacher) and the senior manager as shunin (senior staff member). Shido teachers are not allocated enough and seem to fall short of one's expectations. These facts show that the definitions of their roles are ambiguous and vague, and they do not currently occupy own positions in the school. Three unique points resulted from a reexamination of the characteristics of work in the school. First, teachers work not only partially for students, but comprehensively around them. It indicates that the profession as a school teacher could not be as stable and structured as medical staff. Second, considering the background of the number of staff in each school, school work should not be divided irrelevant to the organization size. Third, the circumstances inside and outside the school usually vary that instead of school works running between the school staff and workers, it's actually the case that workers run between school works which are not constant and perennial. With these findings, we could assume that in the near future the function of vice principal will be as head teachers. Similarly, Shukan teachers will be shunin, especially in curriculum arrangement and shido teachers will possibly even suffer among other teachers, who work very similar to them in the same school. As for school organization, it could be more consistent, that schools will be more effective with dispersed works, rather than concentrated.