School Management

Prepared by Parul Kackria

Content
Introduction to School
Management
School Management &
Organization
School Management &
Administration
Functions of School Management
Scope
Latest trends
Introduction
School management is a comprehensive system,
comprising of people, infrastructure, policies,
frameworks, guidelines and practices, that goes for the
running of the academic institute.
Everyone is the part of the system, be it teachers,
students, parents, officials & admin staff
People, run the system, based on the guidelines,
policies, governing rules of the geographies and vision
of the organization, using the infrastructure like
buildings, educational techniques, transportation, IT,
etc.
School Management System

People

Vision & Infrastructur

Mission e
School
Management

Rules & Policies &

Regulations Guidelines
Components of School Management

Books and
Records
Learning Parents
Management Interface

Library People
Management Management

School
Infrastructur Manageme
Quality &
e nt Compliance
Management Componen
ts
Need of School Management System
Efficient & smooth running of the institute
Have effective communication between the
stakeholders: Teachers, Students, Parents,
Management
Compliance to the rules & regulations, set by the
government
Adherence to the policies & guidelines, set by the
management
Attainments of the mission and vision of the
organization
Building a better education infrastructure for the
society and nation.
Management Vs Administration
Administration
Consists of owners of the institute, who
have invested capital and are major
stake holders
It is a top level activity
It takes major decisions of the
enterprise as a whole
It is a determinative function
It is concerned about the determination
of objectives and major policies for the
school
Planning and organizing functions are
involved in it
Management
Consists of group of managerial
personnel (principal, teachers, other
staff) who use their specialized
knowledge to fulfill the objectives of
the institute
It is a middle level activity
It takes decisions within the framework
set by the administration
It is an executive function
It puts into action the policies and plans
laid down by the administration
Motivating and controlling functions
are involved in it
Latest Trends
Increased competition and growing demand, making
education as an industry
Schools are getting organized as enterprises, with
definite goals, objectives, mission and vision
School management is relying to latest concepts of
management, like marketing, advertising, operations,
human resources and IT
Increased relying on the concepts of branding and
advertising, with increased investments
Use of modern technologies for the running of the
institute
Some IT in Schools
 Blogs  VideoConferencing
 Forums  Chat
 Communities  E-mail
 Webcast  Instant Messaging
 PodCast  Bulletin Board
 User Groups  VOIP
 Picassa (Google) and Flickr  Data Conferencing
(Yahoo)  Shout Box
 W3Schools.com  Image Board
 Webopidia  YouTube
 Wikis  SlideShare
 Webconferencing
Conclusion
School management is a system, that includes people,
infrastructure, mission & vision, policies and
regulations
It is different to administration, where admin is the top
level of hierarchy
There is a growing trends of running the schools as
enterprises with use of latest management concepts
All this is shaped, due to the growing education
industry