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Education Leadership and Management

Education Leadership and Management

MA in Elementary Education 2013 14Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad

Introduction to ELM

Actors in ELM

Government schools / Aided Schools

Private / unaided schools

Community / Trust run (non-profit)

Private (as an enterprise) elite and for poor schools

Classes covered

Lower Primary (1-4/5), Middle School (4/5-7), Upper / Higher Primary (5/6-7/8) and Secondary (8/9-10)

Synchronisation

Types of Schools

Other types of classification

Public (no exclusion) and Private (exclusive) schools

Single teacher schools / Education Centres

Rural and Urban schools

English medium and local language medium schools, minority schools

Types of Schools

Structure of the Support System

Government

Administrative / Academic / Program

State / District / Block / Cluster

Funders, NGOs

Parents / Community

Media

Reading Advance Organizer I, NV Verghese

Karnataka DIET Assessment Report excerptExecutive Summary of School Development Monitoring Committee study - Karnataka 2004

Structure of the Support System

Federations Teacher Unions, Community institutions, officers associations, parents federations, (network as a new form of organisation)

Education Leadership and Management role played by each institution / group / networksTheir expectations/needs/priorities and inter-relationships with others

Collectively provide education leadership and management

Reading Advance Organizer I, NV Verghese

Karnataka DIET Assessment Report excerptExecutive Summary of School Development Monitoring Committee study - Karnataka 2004

Components of Education System (ELM 'systemic' or actors perspective)

SchoolHead TeacherTeacherChildren Education AdministrationDPI, DEO, BEOAcademic & Research InstitutionsSCERTDIET, BRC,CRCPolicy makersPolitical RepresentativesGOI-MHRD, Secretary, CommissionerCommunity InstitutionsNGO, CBO, Parents Associations,Teachers Unions

Government, Aided orUnaided

Locally Managed / Private

International Organizations / FundersUNESCO, WB

Networks(partnerships, alliances, federations)

Media

Schools as institutionsCommunity institutions and their management of schoolsAcademic Institutions and their roleAdministrative institutions operations and strategic

School management (private or community or government)

Primary institutions for education

Schools as vibrantinstitutions better integrated with local community

Head teachers leading school staff teams, having a shared vision and working together

Building professional networks with other schools and teachers

Community management of education

Experience & demand good quality education

Support enrolment, attendance of children and teachers

School as a vehicle for community development

Linkages between school and society

Possible aims of System (ELM perspective)

For each actor, explore contexts, needs and priorities, issues/challenges, inter-relationships - conflicts and alignments and how they operate as a 'system'

DIET evaluation report extractEducation Service Delivery - Snakes and Ladders - Vimala RamachandranEpw West Bengal: Teachers on the Street.docDecentralisation of Education - Teacher Management.pdfExecutive Summary of School Development Monitoring Committee study - Karnataka 2004

DIET and other academic institutions management

DIET as an effectivevibrantinstitution, providing academic leadership for district, including school academic support

DIET Principal as leader and faculty as a complementing team

Innovation, creativity, research as hallmarks of this institution

Roles School Support

Curriculum design and development

Training and development

Assessment


The challenges of being an 'academic institution' and a 'government department' DQEP report on DIETs

Organization Study of education department of Government of Karnataka PricewaterhouseCoopersSujatha, K.(1994) Educational management, in Sujatha, K., Educational development among tribes: a study of sub-plan areas in Andhra Pradesh, NIEPA. Educational statistics of India, NCERT Shukla, P. D., Revitalising management of school education in India, in Agarwal, Y. and Premi. K. K. (eds), Refroming school education: issues in policy planning and implementation, NIEPA EPW Decentralisation, Professionalism and the School System in India - Rashmi Sharma 2000

Operations / Administrative management (District/Block/Cluster)

Resource people at district block and cluster:Implement programs and schemes

Provide support for the development of good schools

Become facilitators for sharing and scaling of successes & learning

Roles - Infrastructure creationIncentives / schemes (Program) management

Recruitment, Management Development, Career / performance management

Financial Planning & Budgeting

Strategic management (Political & permanent executive)In visioning & strategy formulation

Building a culture of accountability and transparency

Implement plans effectively


The challenges of investments, of scale, of sustainability of programs/ schemes, managing relationships


Donors, NGOsSupport complement / supplement efforts of primary actors

Role in influencing policy

MediaIssues relating to education

Political priorities

Network Management

Complexity and scale of challenges making working together an imperative

Closer interactions / greater alignment amongst actors in this sectorGovernment, Non-Government, Private

Diversity of views and perspectives, in building knowledge and wisdom for action

Federations, coalitions, alliances, networks

