“Managing changes in education for sustainable development”

Abstract

Education plays a critical role in creating professional skills that determine both the level and pace of a country’s development. There is need to ensure that education managers possess requisite skills, knowledge and attributes to perform their administrative tasks effectively. A major weakness in education management in Kenya is that school managers are never given adequate preparation for their work especially how to deal with challenges and issues emanating from Kenya’s ethnic diversity More and Thomas, in Tucker and Coding indicate that regardless of the year appointed, principals have been trained and certified as administrators through programs largely irrelevant to and grossly inadequate for the responsibilities found in the school principal-ship. Bush and Jackson further advocate for contextualized training of school principals because what works well in one country may not succeed elsewhere. The purpose of the study is to determine the training needs of head teachers from their own perception and find out any relationships between the training needs and selected head teacher variables namely; gender, professional qualifications, headship experience, current head teacher grades and academic qualifications. The Needs Assessment Theory will be used. Literature review will be done on the following themes; Role of the secondary school head teachers along five areas of responsibility namely; Responsibility for Curriculum, Responsibility for Teachers, Responsibility for Learners, Responsibility for Resources and Responsibility for Finance. Stratified and purposive sampling techniques will