Sarcouncil Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences

Abstract: The principal plays pivotal multiple leadership and managerial roles to ensure the accomplishment of institutional goal. As the lead teacher, they pilot the school affairs to achieve quality learning outcomes in the three domains of learning (manifestation of knowledge, character including the development of ethics, the learners’ concentration and the acquisition of relevant productive skills). They set the goal for the attainment of required predetermined learning goals for secondary education, lead by example as servant leader, manager, supervisor, evaluator and counsellor, public relations manager, and foster parent to the teacher and learner alike. In the light of these roles, the paper proposed in a management-based instructional framework for more effective attainment of learning outcomes. The panel-discussion approach with anecdotal method was used to synthesise ensuing information, which culminated in the mnemonical framework proposed to drive effective learning. Thus, the principal must be an experience teacher and learning administrator having taken various school roles, should lead and guide in the effective curriculum implementation through instructional-supervisory leadership. The principal should be a trainer of the teachers, a mentor to teachers and learners, and relationship expert. They should be super life-wide and life-long learners, conversant with development in variety of relevant disciplines. The principal as servant-leader should lead by being the first to do the right things or to observe rules and regulations.