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

(v) Adaptability : A school plant should be planned for economical future adaptations to Notes
changing requirements.
• The school office is the nerve centre of the school plant where various records, reports and
registers are stored, where the important matters of administrative policy are discussed and
where the visitors are received. It serves as a ’home-base’ for the principal, ‘professional
centre’ for the school staff, and the ‘service-centre’ for the entire school.
• Functions of the School Office
• Up-to-date file of data about the children : Teachers should be free from the onerous task of
book-keeping wherever possible. The clerk should be mainly responsible for book-keeping,
so that teachers energies may be released for the creative job of guiding the development of
children.
• Every school has to establish certain schedules for the control of such materials and spaces as
the Assembly-Hall, Music Room, Laboratories, Workshops, Visual education equipment,
text books, supplies etc.
• Help teachers in survey tests : After the teachers have agreed upon The kind of testing
programme they desire and have selected the test appropriate to their purposes, the actual
task of ordering and distributing the tests can be handled by the office.
• Modern school techniques include the use of teachers made materials, materials that are
made specially for an actual group of children, based on their present needs.
• Management at Secondary level of Education
• Secondary Schools play a very important role in every child. They spend their most crucial
and adolescence years in it, so there are different needs and different aspects as according to
their course choices, interests etc.
• Different Types of Designs for Secondary Schools
• Following types of designs are in vogue for secondary schools in our country :
(i) The I type—consisting of a row of class-rooms.
(ii) The L type—I type with an extension on one side.
(iii) The T type—I type with extension on one side both ways.
(iv) The U type—Two I’s joined on one side.
(v) The E Type, and
(vi) The H type.
• School Archite Culcture
• Essential Qualities
(i) Simple but elegant and beautiful design.
Low cost.
(iii) Comprehensive Plan
• Maximum Utility : It must give the maximum utility to the pupils, as regards accommodation
protection from weather maximum light, maximum ventilation, tree movement and
comfortable stay in the room for longer hours.
• High standard Mterial : The material used for the building must be of high standard to
enable them to stand the great load put on its use.
(i) Library and Reading Room : Library is the hub of the academic life of a school. With the
new techniques of teaching, library should be the centre of the school educational
programme. When resources permit, reading room should be separate from the library
hall, otherwise the square hall preferably 24 × 80 sq. ft. can serve both the needs.

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