By Roberta Bernstein Soul-searching questions for teachers considering administration. As a teacher, you manage the needs of 20 or more students at one time. If that scenario excites you, you may have what it takes to be a school administrator.
Opportunities are there.
That kind of drive motivates some teachers to leave the daily triumph of seeing that light of understanding flash in a child's eyes. Others see administration simply as a different kind of teaching. Nancy Villarreal, an assistant superintendent in the Newark unified school district, with 7,800 students, in the San Francisco Bay area, believes administration is the ultimate teaching experience. I've begun to look on all of us as learners. Paul Scwartz, principal in residence for the U.S. Department of Education, says the job has been changing.