Changing Roles of Contemporary School Principals

As a result of economic, technologic, social developments and globalization that affect the world, roles of schools and school principals have changed subsequently. Studies reveal that principals’ roles have diferntiated and their workload has increased accordingly. Studies also suggest that cotemporary school principals should carry out different roles such as supervising teachers and students, making decisions, organizing budgetary and financial issues, managing program and establishing school-community relations, instructional leadership and teachers’ professional development besides their current roles. Therefore, this theroetical study has been conducted in order to create awareness of the changing roles that school principals are expected to perfrom as well as the ones have already implemented.