Talk:Head teacher

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I gotta tell you, this is not an acceptable title from the perspective of an American. Principals may once have been the "principal teacher", but in probably 99% of districts they never teach at all, and in many, they never even see the inside of a classroom. HuskyHuskie (talk) 03:48, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Agree, this is ridiculous. I'm in my mid 30s in education and I've never heard the phrase "head teacher" in my life. Headmaster/headmistress are used, principal, "head."

70.127.17.241 (talk) 18:17, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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The first paragraph should contain a better summary on the actual roles. Information on what name is used where should be moved to a separate paragraph further down the page. Exactly which areas use which vocabulary surely isn't the first thing someone wants to hear about. --143.117.170.15 (talk) 16:56, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

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Requested move 29 January 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: No consensus; usage is obviously different in the US and the UK, neither "school principal" nor "head teacher" is the WP:COMMON name, so WP:RETAIN should apply. (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:29, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

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Head teacher → School principal – Between the need to maintain MOS:GNL (thus ruling out headmaster or headmistress) and solving the concern that most principals perform little to no teaching to students at schools, "school principal" appears to be a common and accurate descriptor for the job. Google Ngrams shows that "school principal" is a reasonably common term (and the data does not even include the term "principal" used standalone in a school context; in practice "principal" may likely be the most common term). feminist (talk) 15:00, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

• Support - per common name. Shhhhwwww!! (talk) 09:26, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
  • Common name where? -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:51, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose This is still the common generic gender neutral term. "Headmaster" is the most common because it often refers to a specific individual but "Head teacher" is the generic. "School principal" is more common in the States and per WP:ENGVAR we shouldn't be switching between terms from different countries. Whether or not the head teacher does any instruction themselves is irrelevant - they are the overall head of the teachers. Timrollpickering (Talk) 16:25, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:ENGVAR and WP:RETAIN. This the common name for the post in the United Kingdom. To most people in the UK, "principal" would be associated with America. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:51, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

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Not accurate

This is a real issue. In Australia, many people can be head teachers, but still not be the principal of the school. This is very misleading! - 218.215.23.155 (talk) 00:35, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

I think the Australian edit might be confusing head teacher, which we refer to as Principal, with a Head of Department or Head of Learning Area, who is the subject head (eg Head of English, Maths etc.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.190.186.221 (talk) 12:04, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

The issue is that there are principals who are not teachers in Australia. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 04:10, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

"Assistant head" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect Assistant head. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 August 20#Assistant head until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hildeoc (talk) 00:23, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

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