An Evaluation of the New School Administrator Assignment System Applied in Recent Years in Turkey

Tarık Soydan

Abstract


As in a range of fields of the public life, an extensive reconstruction process within the education field is ongoing in today’s Turkey and the changes made upon the educational administrator appointment/assignment system constitute one of the major dimensions of this process. Educational administrator appointment/assignment system in Turkey is a field where new regulations have been prepared, where numerous circulars have been issued and where extensive changes have been made upon all along the time. However, the changes made nowadays are on a level having an effect on all the school system radically by means of their sizes and qualities. This study, in which the new school administrator assignment system in Turkey is evaluated based on the views of the school administrators and teachers in terms of providing an objective evaluation, making a selection based on competences, improving the effectiveness of the school system and encouraging the school administrators and the teachers for professional development, is a qualitative research based on a survey model. Semi-structured interview and focus group interview techniques were used as the qualitative research techniques in this study. Working group of this study was consisted of teachers and school administrators who served at the state primary schools, secondary schools and high schools in 2014-2015 school year. Interviews were done with 34 people and a focus group discussion with 12 people was carried out within the scope of the study. As a result of the study, it was found out that the participants who have already taken administrative roles consider the system majorly positively while the other participants consider it clearly negatively. Doubts and criticisms of the participants, who took on administrative roles before the new assignment system but who were eliminated during the revaluation stage and appointed as teachers, towards the new system are more intense.

Keywords


School administrator; educational administrator appointment/assignment system; objectivity; competence; effectiveness.

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