School Administration - Dr. Sekar Srinivasan, Senior Principal.

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION

MEANING:

The term educational administration is very comprehensive. It is concerned with the formulation,e xecution and appraisal of educational policies. A school comes into being through the process of organizing and then comes its administration.

PURPOSE:
Running or functioning of the school is the job of head of the institution. This does not mean that only the head and none else is responsible for administration. The head is the leader who is to make all other follow him. Thus, educational administration is more or less a co-operative undertaking and in the language of economics it is a “non- profit making enterprise”.

DEFINITION:
Educational administration consists of facilitating the development of goals and policies basic to teaching and learning, stimulating the development of appropriate programs for teaching and learning and procuring and managing personnel and material to implement teaching and learning. Alternatively,“All those techniques and procedures employed in operating the educational organization in accordance with established policies is defined as admin. It is a social statesmanship which guides educational activities,plans and provides leadership in a long term but broad based social perspective.It is the process of utilizing appropriate materials in such a way as to promote effectively the development of human qualities.

A process concerned with creating, maintaining, stimulating, controlling and unifying formally and informally organized human and material energy within a unified system designed to accomplish predetermined educational objectives.

The eight areas which explains the scope of school administration includes the following:

1 .PRODUCTION:
Educational administration has to interpret the aims of education to the educational workers so that they may shape the final product of education (the achievement of pupils) in the desired form and shape

2. ASSURING PUBLIC USE:
It is the business of educational administration to define the operations
needed to make them known and promote them so that the final educational product is good for public and society.

3 .FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING:
It should record and measure the monetary and other resources invested in the
educational enterprise and also evaluate the inputs and outputs

4. PERSONNEL:
It is the framing and operation of policies and procedures for recruitment of workers
and maintenance of goodwill and personal relationships among them in order to ensure fullest interest , cooperation, moral and loyalty of all the persons working in the organization. This is especially important for educational enterprise where the whole work is centered round the impact of one type of human beings, the teachers, upon another type of human beings and students.

5. COORDINATION:
This is an important activity of educational administration. It ensures the close
interrelation and integration of all the functional activities of the organization such as personnel, finance and production of desired results such integration has to be
brought about not only in the structure of the organization but also in the attitudes and efforts of the workers, so that all of them pull together in the direction of the desired goals and achieve them.

6. CURRICULUM:
It is the means of achieving the goals of education. Educational administration has to deal with the problem of curriculum construction and its day to day development.It has to look after the continuous evaluation and progressive improvement of the educational programs which are urgently called for in view of the constantly going on scientific, technological and social changes. Administration has to pay close attention to the teaching-learning programs and processes and also to other instructional material. Important pupil services such as health, recreation and psychological services of testing and records, guidance and counseling and co-curricular activities etc.,have to be organized and administered for the benefit of the young.

7. PHYSICAL FACILITIES:
This comprise the area dealing with the problem of provision and maintenance of the school plant equipment and supplies their production, purchase, upkeep and accounting.

8. PUBLIC RELATIONS:
Education is a social enterprise which runs with the cooperation of students, teachers,parents and the community. Educational administration has to make each of them contribute to its due share to the success of the enterprise. It should therefore maintain effective public relations. This involves maintenance of records, information and bulletins about past achievement and future proposals. Administration should encourage community visitation and secure its participation and cooperation by a process of give and take ie, by utilizing community, resources and rendering useful services for
its welfare.

The above list and categorization are only suggestive and not exclusive. They are not arranged in any priority order as all others are equally necessary and important

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