Educational leaders and role of education on the efficiency of schools principals

Today, most scientists and researchers of education believe that if it is supposed to have a change in education field today, it should be started from education management. The subject of this research is the necessity of training educational managers and leaders and studying the role of education in their effectiveness. Our goal in this research is to pay basic attention to the critical and great role of educational managers and leaders to realize and achieve educational goals and the fact that today, educational leadership and management in various levels has become one of the important and heavy responsibilities of the society. In order to study the above-mentioned subject, literature review was made and works of authors in education and researches were studied. The researches of scholars and researchers inside and outside the country, which were tested and proved through academic systematic and analysis, were carefully studied and examined. The results of this research shows that if knowledge, attitude and job conduct of principals of schools and managers of educational units is not rooted from their specialized and professional knowledge needed to take this position, they could turn into the most important barrier in the improvement and renovation of educational system. Therefore, the educational managers should receive trainings because thoughtful and efficient principals in schools help in improving job satisfaction teachers, establishing firm links with parents of students, strengthen PT associations, lower educational loss, improvement in renovation and creativity in benefiting form human resources and facilities and ultimately, improve the quality of children and juveniles' lives. (c) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license.