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Unit 21: Application of Educational Management in Academic Areas

(ii) Each college should design its own programme of student involvement and this will entail, Notes
more than giving a new life to student government. Students should be given an opportunity
to lead group discussions, to practicipate in departmental faculty meetings, to evaluate the
academic progress of their peers and the class instructional programme. The mere knowledge
of the availability of the such opportunities encourages the student body to work in close
collaboration with the teachers and the administrators rather than to stand against them.
(iii) College should offer courses on adolescent behaviour, understanding a college environment
and how to bring about institutional changes. The widespread student unrest definitely
indicates that there is something wrong with the system and that changes and reforms are
necessary. Administrators and teachers must meet the challenges of the youth and solve
their problems. They must help the students with non-violent and constructive programmes.
(iv) Some of the students’ demands may be anti-educational. Colleges can reform but it should
follow its educative function. Colleges should stand firm on their professional prerogatives
but at the same time concede to students demands if they follow the general principles and
purposes of education. Colleges should try to find a balance between responsiveness with
responsibility.
21.3.1 Supporting Devices of Classroom Management
Classroom management is not sufficient enough to realize the objectives of education. Therefore,
supporting devices of classroom management are used in this context. The following are the common
supporting devices of classroom management.
(1) Laboratory experimentation (2) Field work (3) Library study (4) Educational excursion or field
trips (5) Home assignment (6) Self study or Assimilation (7) Tutorials for remedial teaching (8)
Action research and (9) Guidance services.
These supporting devices are required in different school subjects. The laboratory experimentation
is needed in science subjects physics chemistry, botany and zoology. The field work is done in
agriculture science and geography subjects. Educational excursions are organized for historical places,
geographical and religious places. The home assignment, self-study and library study are done for
assimilation process. Tutorials classes are arranged for remedial teaching for weak students. The
classroom management is for normal students and tutorials are organized as supporting device for
remedial teaching. It is individualized teaching activities of students and problems of teaching-
learning are solved by using action research and guidance services.
21.3.2 Teacher Role in Classroom Management
Teacher is the principal component of classroom management. He has to play the several roles-as
manager philosopher, guide and friend. He has the authority, responsibility, accountability and
leadership in managing classroom activities. He has to employ an appropriate model of discipline,
strategies and techniques of teaching. He has to maintain rapport with students and social relation
with his colleagues and principal. Some of the important roles have been discussed here.
(1) Role As Teacher : Teaching is a noble profession. Teacher is an ideal for his students as well as
to society. He should look like a teacher and behave like a teacher. The important role which
influences most to students. How he dresses in classroom and how addresses to his students ?
He must know his students i.e. entering behaviours and social and cultural back ground.
(2) Role as Philosopher : The main job of a teacher is impart knowledge of his subject content. He
must have the mastery of subject and latest development of his subject. He should have the
interest in has subject. Research studies have found that mastery of the subject in a powerful
predictor of teacher-effectiveness.
(3) Role as Guide : Teachers job is to help students in their personal and learning problems. He
has to deal the students problems scientifically for providing the awareness of causes of the
problem. The remedial teaching is arranged for weak students.

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