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School Management and Administration – Notes, Rules & Examples

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Teaching Skills (शिक्षण कौशल)7 conceptsEnglish + हिंदी18 practice questions

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Functions of management: POSDCORB

Understand

Luther Gulick, with Lyndall Urwick (1937), packed an administrator's functions into the acronym POSDCORB. In educational management planning comes first — only once the goal and the route are fixed can organising, directing, co-ordinating and evaluating follow.

LetterFunctionSchool example
PPlanningAnnual plan, academic calendar
OOrganisingClasses, time-table, allocation of responsibilities
SStaffingAvailability and deployment of teachers
DDirectingGiving orders and guidance
COCo-ordinatingHarmonising work of teachers, parents and the SMC
RReportingInformation/reports to higher authorities
BBudgetingPlanning and accounting for grants

Example

Before the session starts, the head teacher sets the goal that every child will read at grade level this year and decides activities for it → planning.

Remember

'CO' = Co-ordinating, not Controlling. 'Controlling' is in Henri Fayol's list of management functions.

Common mistake

Crediting POSDCORB to Henri Fayol or F.W. Taylor. It is Gulick and Urwick's.

Check yourself

What does 'B' stand for in POSDCORB?

6 more concepts in this note

  1. Henri Fayol's principles of management
  2. School Management Committee (SMC) and School Development Plan
  3. Duties and prohibitions for teachers under RTE
  4. Administrative structure of basic education in Uttar Pradesh
  5. School records (registers)
  6. Principles of the time-table

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What do the School Management and Administration notes cover?

7 concepts: Functions of management: POSDCORB, Henri Fayol's principles of management, School Management Committee (SMC) and School Development Plan, Duties and prohibitions for teachers under RTE, Administrative structure of basic education in Uttar Pradesh, School records (registers) and more. Each concept has an explanation, rules, solved examples and common mistakes.

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