School Principals and Administrators - Elementary and Secondary Education
Job description
School Principals coordinate the activities of school personnel. These individuals work in public or private primary or secondary schools.
Curriculum Administrators coordinate activities related to pedagogy. They are employed by school service centres at the elementary and secondary levels.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
School Principals
- Organize, direct, and evaluate the activities of teachers and support staff.
- Supervise department heads and supervisors.
- Participate in the development of educational programs.
- Ensure that programs conform to the current standards of the school service centre or province.
- Administer the school’s budget.
- Direct maintenance services and the use of school facilities.
- Hire staff.
- Teach, as required.
Administrators of educational programs at the primary and secondary levels
- Collaborate in the management of pedagogical services with school principals.
- Evaluate and revise curricula and teaching methods.
- Participate in public activities related to various programs in the school system.
- Develop and administer education and training programs.
- Make recommendations regarding the annual budget allocated to the school.
- Recruit, appoint, train, and evaluate teachers.
Advancement and mobility
- There is little mobility between the posts of Primary School Headmaster and Secondary School Headmaster.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.- Minimum
- $32.00
- Median
- $47.12
- Maximum
- $60.44
Job prospects for 2021-2025
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Job prospects for 2021-2025
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2020
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5,000
All of Québec
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Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 62.1% Female
- 37.9% Male
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- 62.1% Female
- 37.9% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
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- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
All of Québec
$92,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
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Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- Bachelor’s in Education.
- Several years of experience as a teacher or head of department.
- Authorization to teach.
- Permanent teaching certificate for school principals.
Sometimes required
- A Master’s degree in education may be required.
- A Principal’s certificate is sometimes required for principals.
- A Supervisory Officer’s Certificate may be required for Administrators of Elementary and Secondary Education Programs.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Critical thought
- Social perception
- Learning strategies
- Information processing
- Written expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Coordination
- Result evaluation
- Human resource management
- Solving complex problems
- Active learning
- Teaching
- Systems evaluation
- Time management
- Service oriented
- Negotiation
- System analysis
- Financial resource management
- Persuasion
- Material resource management
- Mathematics
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Speech clarity
- Written comprehension
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Awareness of issues
- Classification
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Originality
- Idea generation
- Mathematical reasoning
- Processing flexibility
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Time sharing
Knowledge and attributes
- Diplomacy
- Leadership
- Political sense
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Knowledge of the French language
- Autonomy
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to network
- Versatility
- Pedagogical knowledge
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 0422 (40021)
School principals and administrators of elementary and secondary education
Job titles
- School vice-principal
- Chief superintendent - schools
- School principal
- Elementary school principal
- Board of education administrator
- Assistant district school superintendent
- Regional superintendent - schools
- School superintendent
- College principal - secondary level
- Business college principal
- Private primary college principal
- School district superintendent
- Director of education - correctional institution
- Superintendent of elementary education
- Superintendent of special education
- Superintendent of operations - schools
- Hall principal - secondary school
- Superintendent of education programs
- Community school principal
- Vocational high school principal
- Native school principal
- Director of school for the visually impaired
- Director of school for the hearing impaired
- Director of school for the blind or deaf
- Private school headmaster/mistress
- Secondary school principal
- Superintendent of academic affairs
- Superintendent of elementary schools
- Superintendent of education programs in public schools
- Superintendent of student services
- Superintendent of educational services
- Superintendent of professional development - schools
- School district assistant superintendent
- Deputy superintendent - schools
- Superintendent of secondary schools
Skill type
Management
Related occupations
- Administrators - post-secondary education and vocational training
- Education policy researchers, consultants and program officers
- Government managers - education policy development and program administration
- Senior managers - health, education, social and community services and membership organizations
Last update: December 22, 2022
