Effective School Management

Integration of resources
The managerial role – as opposed to the teaching role – is to be the ‘glue’ in
the organization, not, it is hoped, in the sense of ‘gumming up’ the works –
though those whom you manage will inevitably see it that way at times – but
in the sense of holding the organization together.
The first post in which a teacher has to plan, organize, direct and control
the work of other teachers involves a fundamental change in the criteria for
job success. Many learn the lessons the hard way.
Throughout the educational process, success as a student tends to depend
on demonstrating and exploiting one’s own ideas and talents. This may also

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be the focus in one’s first teaching appointment. As a manager, on the other
hand, success depends on using the ideas and talents of a team, on arriving at
decisions and actions to which the team members feel committed and on
ensuring that they are put into effect. Though you do not feel that someone
else’s idea is quite as good as your own, you may be wise to back that idea,