The term ‘management’ is very
comprehensive. Management means the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals.
MEANING OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT:
School management means running the school along the desired
educational policies. It takes into account all aspects of the school
(policies, material and human resources, programmes, activities, equipments
etc.) and integrates them into a fruitful whole.
In simple words it means managing the affairs of a school.
CONCEPT OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT:
The school
management system is a large database system and can be used for managing any
school’s day to day business.
It is the
process of planning, organizing, directing and controlling the activities of an
institution utilizing human and material resources so as to effectively and
efficiently accomplish the function of teaching, extension work and research
for the purpose of achieving the aims and goals of school.
DEFINITION OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT:
There is no
single accepted definition of educational management as its development has
drawn heavily on several disciplines like economics, sociology and political
science.
But some
specialists in this area have propounded their views in the form of giving
their definitions on educational management which are given below.
Paul Monroe (1913) - “School management, as a body of educational doctrine,
comprises a number of principles and precepts relating primarily to the
technique of classroom procedure and derived largely from the practice of successful
teachers”.
G. Terry page and J.B. Thomas (1978) - “Theory and practice of the organisation and
administration of existing educational establishments and systems.”
Shelly Umana - “Management is a method of operation and good management should result in an orderly integration of education and society”.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT:
The
followings are the aims and objectives of school management,
- To reflect and conserve basic values.
- To carry out educational futures.
- To manage social change.
- To profit by experience.
- To carry out modernisation.
- To propagate science.
- To adopt technology.
- To realise National Integration.
- To form character and values.
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD SCHOOL MANAGEMENT:
- Objective Based: It means to attain the objectives of education and schooling.
- Quality of Education: Good school management is
concerned with the quality of education being given in schools.
- The best use of resources: In order to
promote efficient functioning of the school, it makes the best possible use of
the material resources.
- Joint Enterprise: It involves the
joint enterprise all the personnel connected with the school – Teacher,
supervisors, pupils, parents etc.
- Professional growth: It brings out the
best in the teacher and supervisors and takes steps to promote their
professional growth.
- Efficiency and Improvement: It tries to bring
out over all improvement and efficiency in the school.
- Continuous process: It is a continuous
process. It always concerned with improvement and development of the
institution.
- Input–Output Model: It works on the input-output
model. It takes into account the efforts made and the outcomes achieved.
- Community oriented: It
is alive to social needs and requirement as the school is meant to serve the
society.
SCOPE OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT:
Anything done to improve the quality of education at any stage may
be ranging from the supply of material, human and financial resources to the
highest cultural or academic needs-comes under the scope of educational
management.
This scope of school management is very vast. It
includes everything regarding the efficient functioning of the educational
institution, securing the greatest benefit to the greatest number through an
adoption of practical measures.
It interprets and clarifies the functions and the
activities of an educational programme in fruitful relationships and harmonizes
their mutual action. It ensures sound planning, good direction and efficient
and systematic execution.
We shall consider the scope of educational management under the
following heads.
Goal Development:
Society is in a constant process of change, needs of the society
change and so do the goal specifications. It is necessary for the educative
process to be responsive to these changing expectations and it is through the
educational management system that persons involved in the process of
management can continuously examine, evaluate and change (if appropriate) the
goals of education
Programme Planning and Actualization:
Planning is the process of preparing a set of decisions for action
in the future and directed towards realising some goals by the best possible
means.
Program planning involves multiple
steps including the identification of a problem, selection of desired outcomes,
assessment of available resources, implementation, and evaluation of the
program.
The responsibility for the planning and actualization of
programmes rests with the management system. It is therefore essential that the
management system should provide technological support to the educative process
in the form of consultations and services. The management system should
initiate, coordinate, provide services and to be a part of these activities.
Organization:
Organization has been a problem in the field of education. If
conventional biases and prejudices can be replaced by decisions made logically
and scientifically, with the achievement of objectives as the only
consideration modern principles and techniques of organization will provide a
basis for effective distribution and co-ordination of functions.
CONCLUSION:
School
organization and management is simply the way of managing whole tasks of school
properly so that better results could be obtained and ultimately goodwill of
school enhanced.
The
significance of school management has all the more increased due to an increase
in the number of students and knowledge and expectation for the transfer of
knowledge. In India, there are more than 8lakh schools and 18 crore students, and
their management is not that simple.
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Information is the most important thing in the Internet age. If we want to improve our school services, we must first provide updates on student development at our school. Therefore, the best school leaders should have information portals that students and their parents can access anytime, anywhere. With portals, parents no longer need to go to school to find information about their child's education.
- Improved inventory management
We all know that school supplies are easy to damage or lose. Small objects such as computer mice or microscopes in biology labs require extreme caution. Otherwise, the school will bear the damage. An inventory management system integrated with a barcode system can help schools better manage their inventory. An inventory system makes it easy for staff or teachers on duty to record and track the location and exact condition of items.
- Student data processing
Enrollment numbers are usually high. Parents want their children to go to elementary school. But hundreds or thousands of new data can be a headache for school administrators. This is why the school started using her CRM system. This system automates student data collection and greatly reduces the burden on students during enrollment.
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