- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This book provides contemporary knowledge on school effectiveness and proposes strategic interventions for enhancing it. It focuses on improving academic leadership for enhancing the effectiveness of schools and discusses how national education policies are helpful in providing a vision towards improving school effectiveness.
It highlights the role of teachers as academic leaders in the implementation of policy recommendations at school and classroom levels. It offers methods and mechanisms for academic leaders to measure the learning of students for school assessment. The author also discusses how academic leadership involves creating a vision and mission based on science and research data for the organisation, inspiring innovation and creative ideas, developing teamwork, and a safe environment for staff to express their views. While providing an understanding of school as an organization, the volume outlines its management functions such as processes and quality of planning, management of curriculum, learner evaluation, institutional networks, and human resource management, among others. The volume is a guidebook for training and capacity building for school-level practitioners and leaders in education management.
Embedded with real-life cases and episodes, this volume will be of interest to teachers, students, and practitioners of education, management, and education management. It will also be useful for academicians, educationalists, practitioners, management professionals, educational leaders, and policymakers.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 School Effectiveness: An Introduction
- 2 Understanding Academic Leadership
- 3 Discovering the Leader in You
- 4 School-Based Educational Policy Implementation Model (SEPIM)
- 5 Understanding School as an Organisation
- 6 Developing School as a Learning Organisation
- 7 Leading Professional Learning
- 8 Nurturing and Leading the Leaders
- 9 Resource Planning and Management
- 10 Networking for Organisational Learning
- 11 Reorienting Administrative Management for School Effectiveness
- 12 Student Services and Parental Involvement for School Effectiveness
- 13 School Effectiveness Audit
- 14 Towards Quality Culture and Graduation in Leadership
- References
- Index