Why do University School administrators also teach?
The best way for anyone to know a child well is to have taught that child. One of the most important things about University School is that the school is small enough for each administrator to personally know the strengths and weaknesses of each child. Not many schools can know students that well. When administrators are also classroom teachers, they can truly understand what each classroom teacher deals with each day. Even universities have seen the advantages of having administrators teach and are more commonly requiring it of their administrators. It is one thing to tell teachers how they should handle their duties and quite another to be able to show them. When administrators thoroughly know all the students, thoroughly know how the various educational systems work for these specific children, they are then in a position to be the leaders they need to be.
