Effective School Administration; Best Practice for Head Teachers and Principals [Final Part]

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School Administration could be effectively handled through appropriate mix of techniques, strategies and procedures stated below:

★ Teamwork: This involves collaborative decision making and problem solving. Through regular Meetings (Mandatory Professional Development Meeting) policies, goals and standards are jointly set and pursued. This approach engenders buy-in and voluntary compliance.

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★ Enforcement of Discipline: Application of sanction to defaulters

★ Direct Intervention through better interpersonal relationship and communication skills: Engender a close working relationship with all staff and personally intervene in their unique challenges.

★ Personal and Unique reward system

★ Leading by Example

★ Delegation of Duties, Roles and Responsibilities: Strategically delegate task to members of your staff and tactfully deploy them as line managers to help you administer the School. This division of labour is very important as it is practically impossible for you to be everywhere or do everything alone.

Above all, the bedrock of being an effective School Administrator lies in commitment and readiness to acquire new skills and properly deploy them as part of a common vision shared by the School.

Since the emphasis and focus of this article is effective School Administration, it is pertinent that suggestions that will facilitate leadership effectiveness be made:

1. Encourage the moral, physical and intellectual development of pupils/students

2. Maintain law, order and discipline in the School

3. Ensure proper registration and classification of pupils/students and report progress accordingly

4. Collect all due funds for the running of the School, judiciously apply and transparently account for them

5. Take daily pupils/students’ attendance

5. Conduct the affairs of the School in accordance with government approved policies, timeline and procedures

6. Conduct promotion and other Examinations based on government directives

7. Report pupils/students’ progress termly to parents/guardians

8. Make available list of approved Textbooks to students/pupils/parents/guardians

9. Furnish appropriate authorities with necessary/required data/information concerning the School

10. Give due attention to the health, safety and sanitary condition and comfort of staff and students

11. Report any suspected outbreak of disease/epidemics to appropriate authorities

12. Maintain appropriate School Records

13. Ensure the existence of functional PTA

14. Perform efficiently, all assigned duties

15. Perform any other assigned duties.

Schools, like any other organizations, are established to achieve specific goals and objectives. The Head Teacher has the responsibility of ensuring the achievement of these goals/objectives. He is charged with the responsibility of managing both the human and material resources for the attainment of the goals of the School. Overall, a school is successful if it exhibits high level of academic performance, high level of discipline, prudent financial management and cordial School-Community relations. The level of success of a School depends largely on the Head Teacher. Develop yourself professionally, improve interpersonal relationship and communication skills, adopt a teamwork approach and delegate task appropriately to enhance your leadership prowess for administrative efficiency.

I hope this article will be helpful to some Steemians in the community.