Authority and

Accountability
EDU 4103

How do schools function?

Define the following at your tables:
Leadership
Authority
Responsibility
Decision-making
Empowerment

Manager
What is her role at the school?
Read the list of her responsibilities.
She is given the power to carry out these responsibilities
by ADEC.
But, how can she get it all done?

She is accountable if things go well or if they go badly.

The secret: Delegation

Delegation the selective sharing of power
different people are given the responsibility for certain
activities and the authority to make decisions about them
Who is then accountable?

At your tables, decide to whom a manager may delegate

some of her responsibilities
What qualifications should that person have?

Issues with Delegation

Discuss where you have seen delegation at UAE schools
How do teachers feel when given extra duties?
What must the manager do
to delegate effectively?

Identify the internal organizational needs of the school and relate

these to the structures and roles which typically address them.
Need
Define the need.
How is this used?

Structure
Where does this take place in a school?
Describe the organization that manages this need.

Roles
Who is involved?
What do they do?

communication

In classroom, outside the class.

Discussions, debates, dialogue.

Stakeholders: parents, teachers, staff.

Contact with students to enhance the learning,
behavior.

resources

The materials that

teacher need to deliver
learning / students lead
it to practice the
learning.

In school at the classroom, library.

The ministry provide it to the school.
The principal required it.
The teacher use it.

Students teachers.
Make the students practice the learning.
Use variety of recourses to make the students
discover and keep them engage

Interact

with others ,
Share ideas, Able to
express their ideas and
feeling .
Every students have
chance to talk.

people

All the time at the school.

Teachers , cleaners and Techers , Cleaners must feel comfortable in the
other staff.
school. Also, they know what is expected from

them.

The

time

In school, and outside the school.

Set time for everything such as principals
meeting.
Curriculum due.
Exams.
Meetings

Teachers ,parents ,students.

Follow the time table.
Be flexible if change happens.

Teachers, students.

Managing the time.

Set schedules.
Organize meetings

record keeping

Save pictures videos,

worksheets, exams, and
activities

In school.
Establish club for photos and videos. Choose
specific people that can take pictures and videos.

school community.
Gives ideas.
Be creative.
Follow the rules and participate in events.

Take pictures and videos of the special events.