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Educational Management

Notes Among the topics education futurists have selected for study and research are curriculum content
(i.e., knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes), materials and methods; school and curriculum
organization patterns ; patterns; preserves and in-service education of teachers, schemes for financing
public, private, and parochial schools; teachers organizations or unions, and salaries and benefits;
student demographic characteristics; educational media and technology; politics and control of
education ; global, international education; functions of non-school educative agents, such as
publishers, commercial television, families, and community agencies; and school buildings and
other learning environments.
Managements may be seen as a person or a group of people. For example, a teacher could say ‘The
school management has changed the timetable in the middle of the term’. This could be referring to
you, as the head alone, or to all the senior staff, or it could refer to the members of the board of
governors or school committee. In schools with several promoted staff a senior management team’
might be formed in much the same way as a government has a cabinet of ministers.

2.1 Educational Management as a Process

In this sense, management is a field of study with various subjects and topics. Knowledge, skills and
attitudes in management can be acquired through learning, from experience and from certificated
courses.
Management is a collection of processes, including such things as decision-making, problem-solving
and action-planning. These processes involve the management of resources including human,
material, financial and time. These processes are also known as the functions of managers.
There was limited needs of human being prior to development. A person fulfilled his needs of his
own efforts, but now a person has large number needs which he can not satisfy his own. He has to
take help of other. There are several types of organizations around us. Such as formal, informal,
social, economic vocational, administrative, political, educational etc. An organization is group of
individuals which has its definite objectives to be achieved by the joint efforts. There is need of
management to integrate and to administer. The meaning of the term ‘manage’ the term ‘management’
in education is related of the following components.
(1) Educational Planning.
(2) Educational Organising
(3) Educational Directing
(4) Educational Controlling
(5) Educational Evaluating
Planning
Through the planning process the head aims to manage an efficient and an effective school. Efficient
means using minimum resources to get maximum results on time. Effective means to achieve the set
of objectives. The third part of the planning stage is thus to decide on an appropriate strategy.

Organising
Organising involves putting in order of priority and preference the resources which are available.
An Action Plan is needed in which actions and activities are scheduled. In order to give the plan
‘teeth’, targets are set. These targets should be quite easily attainable within a short period of time.
Directing
The manager needs to direct the implementation of the plan. He or she should provide leadership
by delegating duties and responsibilities to staff, and by motivating them. The directing process
also involves co-ordinating and controlling the supply and use of resources.

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