School Complex Organization

Deals with :
- Human Resources
- Curriculum
- Communication
- Resources and Finance
- Discipline
- Record Keeping
- Guidance

School is partially autonomous

Types of Organizations in Schools
Individuals, Groups, Committees, Teams, Classes working
together to produce a coordinated organization.
Operates with a mixture of hierarchical and collegial, skewed to
collegial.
Continuum from:
Autocratic Paternalistic Consultative Democratic/ Collegial
(Tell) (Sell) (Involve) (Co-determined)
Organization affected by school size and school ethos/ culture.
Causes of negative ethos lack of communal relationships,
and impact of community
School as Teams within a Team
Organizing in teams for work distribution, management
control, distribution of duties, information gathering and
processing.
Types of Teams: HODs, Grade Supervisors, Grade Teachers,
Form Teachers, etc
Working Together in Teams produces greater output.
Members believe they are relevant, appropriate and
necessary.
Leadership
More than Management
Involves forward planning, vision, foresight, school
development planning, communication, student needs,
general administration.
Curriculum leader, financial and resource manager.
Leadership style very important.
Change Agent
All Teachers should be leaders and managers in their own
right.
Strategic and Critical Management Points
and Management Roles
Curriculum :
- Broad and balanced
- Careful selection of subjects
- Appropriately Timed
- Teaching styles
- Student assessment
- Teacher placement.
- Classroom Management
- Relevant to Student Needs
Human Resource Management
Teachers Recruitment, Training, Motivation, Maintaining
interest of students
Right Person influences effective teaching and learning.
Structures must be in place to deal with existence of
vacancies to appointment followed by induction, mentoring
and appraising.
Communication
Sharing of information written, spoken, electronic.
Long, medium and short term.
Extensive in all schools
Two way process - must be sent, received and acted upon.
Barriers to Communication
Record Keeping
Administrative
Teachers Records
Students Records
Personal Information
Registration
Finance and Resources
Teachers
Student Achievement homework/ classwork/ tests/
exams.
Record Keeping
Storage manual/ electronic
Must be valid, reliable, confidentiality maintained.
Moving to electronic saves time, more accurate, allows
teachers more time for planning, teaching and assessing.
Management of Resources and Finances
Deployment of Limited Resources
Restriction Government, parents contribution
Budgeting Appropriate distribution
Contributions
Fund Raising Care, if excessive, detriment to teaching.
Financial Management Decision making, management, and
accountability.
Co curricular Activities
Expensive sports is expensive
Important for holistic development.
Supply- wide range of activities
Proper Supervision
Proper Planning
Effects Increased School Spirit and Motivation
Discipline
Good Discipline advances learning.
Poor discipline crippling to learning.
Importance of Rules
Types of Rules
Effect of Society
Every Staff Member should be a disciplinarian leading by
example.
Chain of command in dealing with discipline.
Guidance
Career Guidance impartional, personalized and systematic.
Helps in selection of subjects and choice of future careers.
Psychological Guidance aids good discipline.
Organizational Structure
Having outlined the processes, conditions, consideration,
roles and issues involved in effective school management,
duties and responsibilities can now be easily fitted into the
organizational chart which emphasizes the team approach.
The structure is essentially for a large school but can be easily
modified for a small school.
It shows horizontal as well as vertical relationships for
effective management.
Suggested Organizational
Structure for Effective School Management
Suggested Organizational
Structure for Effective School Management
Suggested Organizational
Structure for Effective School Management
 Management is an art and a science; it is an art as it
involves application of skills and it is a science as it is a body of
systematic body of knowledge developed through
experimentation and observation.
According to Lawrence A Appley Management is the
development of people and not the direction of things ..
Management is the personnel administration.
According to Stanley Vance Management is simply the
process of decision making and control over the action of
human beings for the express purpose of attaining pre
determined goals.
School management is a process of
leading the school towards
development through not only the
optimum use of the human resources,
physical sources, principles and
concepts that help in achieving all the
objectives of the school but also the
proper coordination and adjustment
among all of them.
Thus, school/classroom management
Is a process
Is a social process
Involves group effort
Aims at achieving pre-determined goals
Is a distinct entity
Is system of authority
Is required at all levels of organisation
 Management gains importance in the light of
achieving the objectives of a school and
planning for the same. It involves varied activities
and co-ordination among all the
stake holders.
Management is that function of an organization
concerned with the co ordination and cooperation
necessary for attaining the goal with reference to
classroom processes.
 To determine the objectives of the processes involved in the school
organization and the management.
To formulate a system of co-ordinated activities for classroom
processes.
To determine the quality index for the processes involved in the
school.

The school management requires

leadership, team building,
cooperativeness, goal attainment.
 To determine the objectives of the processes involved in the
school organization and the management.
To formulate a system of co-ordinated activities for classroom
processes.
To determine the quality index for the processes involved in the
school.
OBJECTIVES OF PLANNING, ORGANISATION &
MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOL/CLASSROOM
PROCESSESS
1. Understanding the vision, mission and goals of an
institution in the planning process.
2. Become aware of different plans and organizing skills
required as an elementary school teacher and head of
the institution.
3. Develop an insight into the responsibilities and the
leader in professional growth, commitment,
competencies, attitudes, school development plan,
physical and human resource management, time
management and community relations..
4. Train the teachers and head teachers in planning and
executing the curricular programs of the school.
5. Adopt ICT in the process of Planning and
Organization of school activities.
6. Understand the needs of alternative education and
integrate it into the curriculum.
7. Develop in the student teachers the classroom
management skills.
8. Prepare the student teachers in using different tools
and techniques for continuous and comprehensive
evaluation.