School Leadership, Management, Administration and Governance

This reading discusses the importance of appraisal to ensure teachers` professional accountability.

This is the second recommended reading for Saide's Education Studies module "Being a Teacher"

This video is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change.

This module aims at empowering school managers and teachers to develop and implement appropriate mentoring programmes.

Ideas on understanding change are taken forward into approaches to leading and managing change. School-as-organization approaches are compared with the school-as-community approach.

Beginning with a focus on South Africa, this section provides valuable coverage of approaches to school ‘effectiveness’ and school ‘improvement’. We learn more about schools as learning organizations.

This provides an overview of organizational styles and the importance of cultures as well as structures in organizational models and change.

This introduction provides a rationale for the module, as well as its structure and content. We read how the writers intended the module to be used.