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Unit 3: Management at Different Levels-Elementary, Secondary, Higher Education

(i) Periodicals : These include current events periodicals and magazines, about the current Notes
events and various aspects of life showing art, literature, music, dance etc.
(ii) Pamphlets : Published by various Government agencies and bureaus pamphlets for
specialised services are important sources of information about different walks of social,
economic and political life. As they are generally low priced every school library should
subscribe for these.
(iii) Newspapers : Each school library should provide for local newspaper and daily several
national weekly newspapers. The teachers and pupils should be well informed about events
of national and international importance and newspapers is a wonderful agency for that.

3.11 Role of Head in School and College Activties
The headmaster is the major component of school management. On his ability and skill, personality
and professional competence largely depend on the tone and efficiency of the school. “Schools are
good or bad, in a healthy or unhealthy mental moral and physical condition, flourishing or perishing
as the headmaster is capable, energetic and high ideals or the reverse. Schools rise to fame or sink
to obscurity as greater or lesser headmasters have charge of them.” Everything in the school, the
plan, the staff, curriculum, methods and techniques of teaching, co-curricular activities, human
relationships bear the impress of the personality of the headmaster. Thee school is as great as the
headmaster. The schools become great not because of the magnificent buildings but because of
“magnificent” headmaster. Harrow, Eton and Rugby have been made famous by their great head. As
is the headmaster so is the school.
Role of Headmaster

The following are the main roles of a headmaster of a school :
(1) Leadership behaviour.
(2) Alert to the forces of environment.
(3) Selection of goals.
(4) Knowledge and professional training.
(5) Loving the teachers, students and parents.
(6) Sound physical health.
(7) Sound attitude towards life.
(8) Winning of faith.
(9) Supervision of each Teacher’s work.
(10) Right delegation of authority.
The details of the above roles are given in the following paras.

(1) Leadership Behaviour : Hodgkinson points four maxims for leadership in school administration:
(1) Know the tasks.
(2) Know the situations.
(3) Know his followers, and
(4) Know himself.
Hodgkinson’s second maxim can be taken to include the organizational situation. Maxim 3 on
followership would also imply a knowledge of the environment in lists of management
tasks. There is relatively little discussion in the literature of the skills required and strategies
entailed in the leader transforming the forces in the environment into a mission for the

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