School Leader Self-Development Assessment: A Review Paper

Abstract

School leadership concept has continually changed and keeps changing due to societal, methodical and technological developments, changes in pedagogy and teaching environment, the global and national markets, etc., so do standards and assessments for school leaders. Furthermore, in comparison with the history of learning, teaching and school leadership, the history of school leadership standards, assessment tools and standard certification progresses are quite new. However, in our globalized world, standards have gained importance and there has been great progress in school leadership standards and assessment means. Private schooling has become a great business and self-development is a part of the competition. The purpose of this paper is to attract school leaders’ attention to self-development, inform them about self-development and assessment issues and encourage them to assess themselves from the point of self-development. The assessment can focus on personal and professional development. It is also important to introduce some modern-world leadership concepts to school leaders since they might be absorbed in their own way of leading/managing without thinking some key concepts and standards of leadership.