The Role of the School Principal in Increasing Students’ Success

Abstract

Increasing students' success in school has recently become an issue that arouses interest to all relevant factors in education. Students' success depends not only on themselves, but also on other factors, especially the principal of the school, whose supporting and communicating role significantly affects the success of students. The principal is the one who with his leading role creates better conditions and opportunities for students' freedom of choice. The principal's reward for students' success and their achievements increases considerably the motivation and the sense of self-confidence on students, thus creating prerequisites for the best achievements of students. The commitment of the school principal in increasing school's success consists of supporting the initiatives, cooperation, communication and constant motivation of students and teachers. The principal is the key to success in students' achievement. The purpose of this study is to understand the role of the school principal in increasing students' success from teachers and school principal's perceptions. For this study, we used quantitative methods combined with the qualitative and semi-structured interviews, and the techniques used for the implementation of research were: semi-structured questionnaire, recordings with multimedia tools and a structured questionnaire surveys. The results show that the principal of the school collaborateswith teachers and students, and supports themin increasing success at school, but not at satisfactory level. From the results we can conclude that if the school principal increases his cooperation and supports teachers and students, students' success will be in a greater level.