School Management and Leadership Book B.Ed 4th Sem RTMNU

Syllabus

Course C403: School Management and Leadership

Unit-1: Conceptual Basis of School Management

A-    Basic management functions: Planning, organising, leading, motivating and controlling and their implications for effective school management.

B-    Using management functions for an effective classroom management in schools.

Unit-2: Needed Competencies for Better School Management and Leadership

A-    Needed skills for conducting strength, weakness, opportunity and threat (SWOT) analysis for improving school management.

B-    Role and functions of headmaster and teacher, Leadership: functions, characteristics, principles of leadership, decision making.

C-    Need and importance of school time-table, principles of constructing time table.

Unit-3: Total Quality Management Approach for Schools

A-    The concept of TQM and the scope for its application in school management.

B-    Human Resource Development in Schools, School Building.

Unit-4: Control and Evaluation Mechanisms for Better School System

A-    The system of evaluation: accreditation and quality assurance: Institutions created to watch quality concerns in school: organisational climate and ethos- ensuring positive ambience within a school.

B-    Improving the present system of inspection and supervision in schools: Participatory management and issues of accountability in school transactions.

C-    Educational administration: The administration structure in the field of education in the state.