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SGDU 5053
PRINCIPALSHIP AND SCHOOL
MANAGEMENT
Credit Value: 3
LECTURER : MEJ (B) MUAAZAM BIN MOHAMAD

Managing your school

Every school needs to have systems that help create
the conditions for staff and students to work
effectively together. Everyone appreciates simple,
clear goals and effective processes. School systems
provide and effectively communicate the ground
rules for everyone. They ensure a measure of
consistency in approach and action across the
school"

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MEANING OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

A social organization
Specified objectives
Own staff
Resources human, financial,
material and physical
The manager principal/head master

MEANING OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT

School Management has TWO aspects:
Internal management admission, library,
laboratory, building etc
External management community,
department, agencies and other persons
Cooperative human endeavor
Principal/Head master, teachers, students
and the community members

WHAT IS ADMINISTRATION
The word administration is from the Latin
word minister meaning servant or slave.
Therefore, administration has to do with the
identification, maintaining, motivating,
controlling, and the unification of human
and material resources within an
organization to achieve a common goal.

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Cont;
Administration can also be considered as the
careful and systematic arrangements and use
of resources (human & material), situations
and opportunities for the achievement of the
specific objectives of a given organization.
(Nwankwo, 1987)
To Gulick & Urwick, administration is a
process of getting things done through the
effort of others in goal achievement.

Cont;
According to Walton (1996),
administration is an activity that
concerns it self with the survival and
maintenance of an organization.

In simple term, administration is where

the seven functions of a chief executive is
executed.

WHAT THeN IS eDucATIONAl

ADMINISTRATION
Nwankwo (1987), defined educational
administration as the systematic
arrangement of human and material
resources and programmes that are
available for education and carefully
using them systematically within defined
guidelines or policies to achieve
educational goals.
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Educational administration is the process
of providing instructional leadership,
management of the day-to-day
activities, setting educational standards
and goals, establishing policies and
procedures required to achieve them in
schools, preschools, day care centres,
colleges and universities.
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Some basic functions

Educational Administrators typically performs
the following basic functions:
develop academic programs,
monitor students educational progress,
train and motivate teachers and other staff,
manage career counselling and other student
services,
administer recordkeeping, prepare budgets.
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Cont;
They also handle relations with parents,
prospective and current students, employers,
and the community.
They set the academic tone and work actively
with teachers to develop and maintain high
curriculum standards,
formulate mission statements, and establish
performance goals and objectives.

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WHAT IS MANAGeMeNT
Management is the process by which
managers create, direct, maintain and
operate purposive organizations through
systematic, co-ordinated and co-
operative human effort. (Forland, 1998)
Management refers to a set of functions
which unite group efforts in a
meaningful manner.

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Cont;
Management is the art of getting things done
through people. (Follett, 1996).

Management is the organization and

coordination of the activities of an
enterprise in accordance with certain
policies and in achievement of defined
objectives. (Drucker, 2005)

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WHAT IS eDucATIONAl
MANAGeMeNT
Educational management is concerned with the
planning and formulation of educational
policies or programmes with a view to achieving
educational goals.
The process of deciding on the aims and goal
setting of the institution/school. In some settings,
aims are decided by the principal, often working
in association with senior colleagues and perhaps
a small group of lay stakeholders. (Bush 2003)

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cONcluSION
The ways in which managers influence
their employees and encourage them to
be productive depend on many variables,
including the personality of the leader,
the skills of the group/employees, the
task or assignment at hand, or the group
dynamics and personalities of group
members.
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Cont;
As with leadership, each base of power
has its place in management and can
prove effective in the right setting and
right circumstances.
There are four major factors of leadership
that we need to take with us as student if
we want to become effective leaders. We
need to:

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Cont;
a. Be a leader: You must have an honest
understanding of who you are, what you
know, and what you can do.
b. Know your followers: Different people
require different styles of leadership.
You must know your people! The
fundamental starting point is having a
good understanding of human nature,

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such as needs, emotions, and motivation.
You must come to know your employees' be,
know, and do attributes.
c. Communication: You lead through two-
way communication. Much of it is nonverbal
and verbal. What and how you communicate
either builds or harms the relationship
between you and your employees.

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Cont;
d.Situations: All situations are different.
What you do in one situation will not
always work in another. You must use
your judgment to decide the best course
of action and the leadership style needed
for each situation.

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Characteristics of school - management

Multidisciplinary various disciplines such as
psychology, sociology, economics (multi subjects)
An applied branch applies the techniques and
principles of management to achieve the
objectives.
Flexibility should not be based on rigid
principles.
Practicability should not be a bundle of
theoretical principles.
Humane concerned with the welfare and
development of human beings.

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Characteristics of school - management

Conformity with the social and political
philosophy of the country
Objective based school based management
Both science and art not only scientific principles
but also based on intuition, experience and
common sense.
A semi profession not a profit industry
Relative not absolute the differences in
situational factors (case to case, contingency,
situational)

Scope of school management

Includes the following elements:
Planning
Budgeting
Organizing
Directing
Controlling
Coordinating
Decision making
Evaluating
Activities and programs
Staffing

Includes the following activities under its scope:

Planning of all activities and programs of the
school
Distribution of academic and co curricular
activities
Preparation of budget
Preparation of time table
Provision of staff
Provision of equipment and furniture
Provision of books for the school library
Organization of academic work
Organization of school co - curricular activities

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