Assistant School Principal
What the work is
Plans, organises and supports the educational and administrative aspects of schools, including physical and human resources.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Maintains a respectful, safe and productive learning environment for students and teachers
- Ensures appropriate allocation of staff to teaching programs, including the engagement of casual relief teachers
- Prepares and supervises class timetables
- Supervises and coordinates the work of senior curriculum or year level coordinators
- Mentors staff in the development, implementation and assessment of learning programs
- Manages the development, implementation and review of specific school policies, programs and operations
- Implements systems and procedures to monitor and report on a school's performance
- Provides support to School Principals when required
- May teach students
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a fictional public primary school in a mixed suburb, with about four hundred students. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A quiet child you worried about stands up at assembly and reads aloud for the first time
- A new teacher's lesson is so good you pull up a chair at the back and watch the whole thing
- Families, teachers and students all turn up for a school event and the whole yard feels like a community
Hard days
- A day starts with three teachers away and no relief staff available
- A parent comes in furious about something that happened before you knew about it
- Every decision is watched by dozens of families, and no choice pleases all of them
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 141131, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.