1. Development planning in schools aims to introduce qualitative changes in work through applying advances in all forms of work and setting new goals annually to improve school work and raise aspirations.
2. The concept of development planning involves different conditions to achieve goals through initiatives of all interested groups for implementation.
3. Key functions of management (planning, organizing, controlling) and the school development plan can improve teamwork, communication, responsibility for improvement, and self-evaluation.
Polkadot JAM Slides - Token2049 - By Dr. Gavin Wood
Management
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Management – Process to quality education
In time of drastic change, the future is inherited by those who learn. Those who think they learnt
it all, are the ones trained to live in the world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
The only constant since the begging of time is change
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INTRODUCTION
Crossing the path with the management challenge of the 21st century, managers must be more
innovative, more flexible and above all focused towards the success. Quality becomes more
critical, the market factor, which distinguishes the school or a company from all others. Main
characteristic of all modern societies is the management of schools/ company. In doing so, the
best will be those who will manage to develop an innovative culture, in which the employees
will enjoy the changes, but also to be the ones that will manage to develop those very changes.
James Houghton from Corning Inc., advocates for the continuous repetition of the following
factors: “Quality, quality, quality……………………………………participation of employees”.
Management should take into account that all its activities are directed towards the work, to
motivate, to synchronize all the factors working in the school, teachers, students, parents,
administrative and technical personnel, and for all their activities should be controlled in this
direction, to see the effects of that work.
With the work plan, in all schools, firstly performance targets are defined, which lead to
development of all shareholders in given activities, project tasks, which is the starting point for
changes at all levels of education.
Development plan for education can be a good basis on working with external partners and local
municipality. Every member in any organization/ school is working more efficiently if certain
conditions are met. It requires everyone to be more flexible in certain alterations, the formation
of work teams, and this partnership brings to the ease of overcoming all the problems and their
solutions, and changes are accepted better.
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Management should be EFFECTIVE (right things to be done), and EFFICIENT (working
in the right way).
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Robbins, S.P., and Coulter,M.,Management, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1996
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1. DEVELOPMENT PLANNING (MANAGEMENT) AT SCHOOL
Development planning in schools represents an organized, institutional process that is continuous
and always in progress. It is based on research, analysis, and detection of all needs and devising
ways to comply. The schools create and implement their own changes. It enters the plan of
schools manager/director that can be grouped into two groups:
Managers physical activity or communication activity
Mental functions of managers or making various decisions
The ultimate goal of all management activities is to create a positive environment that will
positively affect teachers, students and parents in order to achieve all the set goals. Managers /
principals create a good atmosphere to work to encourage employees to be more involved for the
good of all. In this way, greater degree of autonomy is provided, but at the same time means a
higher degree of responsibility for the overall operation. It is essentially a process of
decentralization of the educational process.
Managers are the most expensive resource in the most of the businesses, and if someone is
aiming to lower their value, then there is need to constantly and continuously adding its
complements. Many years are needed for a manager team to be built, but the timeline can be
shortened if a government requires to.
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2. STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT PLANNING IN SCHOOLS
Implementation of the development plan needs time, summoning all the parts in the process, and
last, but not least, working teams in the school. Development plan in schools is composed of
several phases and the character that managers / principals need to cross to reach the required
target.
Development phases Manager’s quality
Phase Diagnoses - aims to identify through The manager should be able to think and
the SWOT analysis of all the points that meditate.
mean something to managers, team work.
Phase Focusing - is where the priorities are Менаџер треба да буде способан да јасно каже
approved in the development of the school, шта је оно што жели да уради- важна је
where teamwork is important. комуникација.
Phase Planning - this is the stage where you Managers should have the technology - the
need to know what, who, why, how to do. It ability to be able to manage themselves
defines the objectives, policies and plans of effectively in all work processes.
the school, the time for which it should seek
to realize the aim, criteria for success, and
all manner of evaluation processes and
results of that work.
Phase Implementation - relates to the The manager needs to think more than anyone
implementation of planned activities which else and can thus be seen that the ultimate
engage all possible resources from which the effect of teamwork.
school has, and its affiliates, which is a key
role in the hands of school management i.e.
team working on the school development
plan.
Phase Evaluation - aims to evaluate the The manager needs to know how to agree its
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results of all that is done, with a view to the aims and ideas with the ideas of the teams to
whole process, analyzing the work, and then work or to * sell * these ideas to the teams to
to make a plan for future school work. This process is a vital part of
development plans. This is where the communication and work motivation, and
development cycle starts in the school. achievement of the objectives of this work.
The manager should have the moral integrity.
His subordinates and superiors should have
confidence in him and all his * actions *.
The manager should be emotionally stabile
person. His personal feelings should be far
from his professional work space.
The manager should have the ability to relate
with everyone that encourages, motivates,
enables him to keep him humble towards his
subordinates.
The manager need to be dynamic. Managers
need to change, to go forward, to make bigger
and better things, and that is the main
difference between passive managers and
dynamic leadership and his team.
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3. DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF SCHOOL AND MANAGERS
Development plan in schools should be specific, clear and realistic to achieve. It means to be
relevant for a given school, and this is the most important part of the implementation of the
development plan. It should also encourages, offer a challenge for something new. In that case
the plan should be in line with the needs of all groups, to be based on the instantaneous state of a
given school, to be based on existing resources, not only in a given school, but also the local
environment and be supported by all stakeholders involved in the work plan.
Everything mentioned above can be realized if the development plan is transparent and if it is
adopted in a democratic procedure.
Of all the factors, the most important is the managerial work and management of the school,
which starts at school and work towards achieving the stated goals. There come to the fore all the
functions of managers:
Planning
Organization
Control
And the organizational functions:
Marketing
Bookkeeping
Reasons to be involved in school development planning process are following:
Efficient and effective use of own resources
Making important decisions
Accepting the specifics of the school
Adoption of initiatives and responsibility for the development itself
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The unification of all interested parties to the realization of the objectives of the
development plan.
This is evident when you list the roles of managers/ principals of schools today:
Bring effective decisions
Anticipating the factors which will create major changes, that will happen and
happen in the future.
The quality of managers can come to the fore along with the school development plan which is
reflected in:
Bunch of ideas for future development plan of the school
Development of teamwork
Confidence development that leads to improvement of the climate to work
Better communication
Taking responsibility for school improvement
Training school evaluation and self-evaluation
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SUMMARY
Development planning in schools means introducing qualitative changes in the work. From one
year to improve their school work, applying the latest advances in all forms of work, setting new
goals for work and thus raising the level of their own aspirations.
The concept of development planning is composed of different conditions to achieve these goals
for the work, and as a result of initiatives of all interested groups for their implementation.
In this sense, come to the fore all the functions of the manager (planning, organizing, controlling)
For the end:
MANAGERS are not born, they are created.
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