La importancia de la gestión directiva en la escuela

The work presented here addresses the importance of leadership and management by the principal in the school in relation to the education that the new century needs; it is essentially focused on rescuing the significance of the leadership role in the leadership and management of the school. For the research have been set general and specific objectives that seek basically to know and rescue the importance of the role played by the director of the institution, on the one hand, and on the other, to know the different theories about leadership and management that informing directors know for the study. For these purposes, an exploratory type study was carried out with a two-variable hypothesis; the importance of management and leadership, for verification, a survey (as validation) was applied to 8 directors of the Municipality of Tecomán, Colima. The final part of the document details the results, findings and conclusions, among which the fact that the degree of updating of the director is decisive to define his leadership style, highlighting the importance of his proper management of resources of all kinds within the school and for each of the activities.