Head teacher

Their duties often include disciplining misbehaving students and helping to organize school-sponsored activities, and teachers report to them.

In Australia, the head teacher is sometimes in charge of one (in the case of a major subject) or multiple (often in smaller schools) specific departments, such as English, history, maths, science, writing, technology, etc., but maintains full teaching duties and status.

While there has been considerable anecdotal discussion about the importance of school principals, there has been very little systematic research into their impact on student outcomes.

This outcome-based approach to measuring effectiveness of principals is very similar to the value-added modeling that has been applied to the evaluation of teachers.

[clarification needed] Some principals have focused their efforts on creating more inclusive schools for students with disabilities.