ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS OF WATTAKRAMEN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

Abstract

        The purposes of this study were 1) to identify the managerial skills of administrators in Wattakramen School and 2) to identify approaches for developing the managerial skills of administrators in Wattakramen School. The study population consisted of thirty participants: school administrators, teachers, and four other officers. The study instrument was a questionnaire on the managerial skills of Wattakramen School administrators based on the concepts of cognitive skills, technical skills, educational and instructional skills, human skills, and conceptual skills, presented by Drake and Roe. Statistics employed in the data analysis were frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and content analysis.

The study’s findings revealed that

1. The managerial skills of administrators in Wattakramen School were overall at a high level, sorted by the arithmetic mean from descending as follows: human skills, conceptual skills, cognitive skills, educational and instructional skills, and technical skills.

2. Approaches of the managerial skills of Wattakramen School administrators were as follows: 1) Cognitive skills, administrators have constantly learned new things., and always apply other methods of thinking to planning. 2) Technical skills, administrators should adequately have a good comprehension of tool and resource management techniques. 3) Educational and instructional skills, administrators should understand the fundamentals of education, and acquire current educational, instructional, and technological skills and procedures that are relevant to the current situation. 4) Human skills, administrators should be able to develop relationships with coworkers, coordinate, and assign tasks in accordance with their responsibilities and integrating various elements 5) Conceptual skills, administrators have always been involved in self-development in various format, analyze the overall school appearance, be foresightful in creating educational institutions' plans with the proper context and organize the work system at the school to be efficient.