School Management
School Management
Module-I
INTRODUCTION
Do schoolteachers need to learn management?
Instinct, common sense, skills and techniques
What is management? Who is a manager?
The manager and the organization
Ethics and the manager
The school’s role and mission: are education and management incompatible?
THE MANAGER AS A LEADER
Interpersonal skills
Management style models
Orientation and behaviour
Dominant and back-up approaches
Suiting behaviour to circumstances
Recognizing inappropriate behaviour
Leadership and job experience
Passive/political orientation
Style and the school manager
Discussion topic
Categories of leadership
Standards for management and leadership
Characteristics of head teachers and deputy head teachers
MOTIVATING PEOPLE
Motivation
Whom do we need to motivate?
Satisfying needs
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
The relevance of the hierarchy
Theory X and Theory Y
Frederick Herzberg
Involvement
Achievement needs
The self-motivated achiever
Motivation theory and the school manager
Discussion topic
Further reading
Opinion questionnaire
Assessing the motivation of others
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TAKING AND IMPLEMENTING DECISIONS
Making things happen
Taking decisions
Logical steps in decision-taking
The implementation of decisions
A structure for implementation
Styles in decision-taking
Consultative decision-taking – the ‘management contract’
Commitment
Delegation
Key principles
Discussion topic
MANAGING MEETINGS
Meetings and the manager
Teamwork
Tests of an effective meeting
Purpose of the meeting
Large meetings
Decision taking
Information exchange
Generation of ideas
Group dynamics
Preparing for a meeting
Discussion topic
Group performance checklist
RECRUITING, EMPLOYING, APPRAISING, DEVELOPING
AND DISMISSING STAFF
People as a resource
Recruitment of staff
Employing staff
The workload agreement
Appraisal and performance management
Discussion topic
Meeting development needs
The re-entry problem
Group training
A coherent approach
Dismissing staff
Picking up the pieces
Discussion topic
Post Graduate Diploma in School Management
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MANAGING CONFLICT
A key skill
The value of conflict
Reason and emotion in conflict
The dangers of conflict
Inter group competition
Attitudes to conflict
Solving problems of conflict
Handling organizational conflicts
Preventing unnecessary conflict
Guidelines for handling conflict
Conflict-management skills
Discussion topic
Further reading
Conflict orientation questionnaire
Role revision strategy
Image exchange
School review
MANAGING YOURSELF
The manager as a resource
The use and abuse of time
Establishing priorities
Criteria for effectiveness
Time management techniques
Managing stress
Assertiveness
Developing your own competence
Managing your learning
Managing our attitudes and behaviour
Equal opportunities Positive and negative management
Discussion topic
Criteria for effectiveness – establishing priorities
Use of time analysis
Time log
ORGANIZATIONS
The organizational dimension
Organizational goals
Stakeholders
Environment
Models of organizations
Elements of organizations
Interlocking systems
Hallmarks of effective schools
Discussion topics
TEAMS
The nature of teams
Team-building
Managing team performance
Discussion topics
Further reading
Formulating objectives
MANAGING AND ADAPTING THE CURRICULUM
Matching the curriculum to the need
The National Curriculum
Meeting the needs of tomorrow’s citizens
Creating positive attitudes
Involving the stakeholder
Corporate planning
Aims and value systems
Curriculum development in practice
Management of early years education, childcare and play work
Leadership and management in the curriculum
Managing pupil assessment
Special needs and the inclusion agenda
Specialist schools
The importance of whole school management
The urgent need for middle management training
The problems caused by managers' lack of training
Identifying training needs
Achieving course objectives
Identifying learning styles and management skills
Effective management styles
Increasing awareness of management styles
Advantages and disadvantages of the different styles
Choosing which style to use
Influences on the development of management styles
Learning to develop a wider range of styles
A framework of management theories
The concepts and language of management
Motivating older, more experienced or disaffected colleagues
The situational aspects of management
School culture and management
The management of teams and meetings
Learning to manage a team
Learning to chair a meeting
Three key management skills
Listening
Decision making
Delegating
Continuing professional development: selection and induction
Reasons for seeking promotion to a management post
Assessing readiness for a managerial role
How to pursue a career in management
Staff selection
Induction
Continuing professional development: appraisal and training
Appraisal
Training
Effective time management
Improving personal time management the contract
Improving organisational time management
The skills of change management
Skills used by teachers managing change effectively
Understanding resistance to change
Reducing resistance to change
Stress management
Acceptance of stress
Learning to understand the meaning of occupational stress
Beginning to tackle the problem
Recognising the signs of stress
Identifying and sharing the coping strategies and resources to reduce stress
Developing personal and whole school stress management programmes and policies
Conclusion
The importance of on-site management development
The benefits of off-site management development
Recommendations for effective training
Filling the training gaps of TQM and QA
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MANAGING QUALITY, RISK, HEALTH AND SAFETY
Quality
Risk
Health and safety
Managing school safety
Some areas of general concern
Out-of-school activities
MANAGING RESOURCES
Resource driven or need driven?
Women and educational management
Investing money
Local management of schools
Cost/benefit analysis
Best value • Budgeting and financial control
Resource control
Adapting existing resources to fit the need
Discussion topics
The role of the bursar and fundraising
Independent contractors and competitive tendering
Further reading
MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT
The natural environment
External relations
The angry parent
Parents as partners
Governors
Skills required for dealing with parents, governors and employers
Managing an Ofsted inspection
The school in the community
CHANGE DESCRIBED
The nature of change
Appreciating the complexity of change
Why plans for implementing change fail
ANTECEDENTS OF SUCCESSFUL CHANGE
Organizational conditions conducive to successful change
Managerial qualities needed to handle change
A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO CHANGE
Introduction to the approach
Assessing the soundness of a proposed change
The reconnaissance
Describing the future
Describing the present
Readiness and capability
Force-field analysis
Problems to be tackled
Resources for change
TRANSITION MANAGEMENT
Transition management structure
Tasks for the transition management
Developing a plan
Hierarchy of objectives
Gaining commitment
Responsibility charting
Monitoring and evaluating change
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