Q.3 It is important to identify the task areas
of the educational administrator. What are the main task areas of educational
administration?
Course: School Administration and Supervision
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment
Answer:
Educational Management is a
multi-faced activity. It is a social process that is designed to ensure cooperation
participation, intervention, and involvement of others in the effective
achievement of given or determined objectives.
Management, being a social process, lays its major emphasis
on the interaction of people-people, mar inside and outside the institutions
and people above and below one operational position. The aims and
objectives of educational management have to be understood from the above dimension,
Several attempts have been made by Early Childhood Education
Training to define the aims and objectives of educational management in different
terms. Broadly the objectives:
- To define the functions of the school.
- To plan for the future and arrange the plan of operation.
- To organize/build up the material and human resources
required for proper running of the school
- To command the staff both teaching and non-teaching to do
their work efficiently
- To co-ordinate the functions of various human elements and
correlate all the activities.
- To control and to ensure everything is done according to the rules which have been down and the instructions which have been given.
- To create an environment and facilities for educational
research etc
Functions of Educational Management/Administration
Seven clearly defined functions of educational management throw more light on viz. planning,
organization, direction, control, coordination, evaluation, and reporting.
There are seven clearly defined functions of educational management which throw
more believe it viz. planning, organization, direction, control, coordination,
evaluation, and reporting.
Planning
Planning is a crucial step in educational management. An unplanned management/administration will not go
very far. Only a planned approach can achieve the desired. Planning should
precede every performance.
Organization
It is a fundamental task in
every administration. Organization is the machine for getting things done. It is mainly concerned with provision, arrangement, and manpower, which enable the administration
to carry out its functions. In fact, administration works through the available organization.
Direction
It is the process of guiding the
human efforts and achieving aims/objectives. Direction represents leadership;
which has a key role to play in administration. This is the authority, that
direct thing done direction shows the way. It channelizes the entire
organization towards the common goal.
In administration, there is always
the involvement of several persons,. Different functionaries of the machinery
are made to pursue the common goal by proper control failing which they pull in
different directions.
Co-ordination
It is the process of harmonizing uniformly all the
elements persons, materials, and services to interweave them to
achieve a common objective. For this purpose, the management should clearly
define (1) the division of labor (2) the allocation of tasks, and control & supervision
over the Die human or material elements and establish good
rapport/relationship between them.
Evaluation
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