Educational Leadership in Practice: The Many Roles of School Management
1Summary
A school head who only manages paperwork will struggle the moment a parent complaint, a curriculum change, and a discipline issue land on the same day. That is the real test of educational management: coordinating the administrative, pedagogical, and social dimensions of an institution at once, not handling them one at a time.
Practiced across every type of educational institution, educational management covers the implementation, oversight, and evaluation of activities that serve educational goals. As the concept of education evolved, so did school management itself — expanding from narrow administrative duties into an integrated function that supplies the material, human, and technical resources a school needs to reach its educational and social purpose.
2Objectives and target group
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Build cooperative relationships with parents, keeping them informed of their children's educational and psychological progress, and support the work of the Parents' Association.
- Create a positive social and educational atmosphere within the institution, instilling good habits and following up on student and staff behaviour and ethics.
- Coordinate with medical officials to track students' health status alongside their academic progress.
- Work with the wider group to develop the institution's role, drawing on programmes the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy has designed with experts in line with modern educational trends.
This course is designed for:
- Managers and deputies working in educational management.
- Education staff and educational or psychological department teams.
- Workers in education and psychology, including graduate students in these fields.
- Employees of the private and public education sector, and new trainees entering it.
3Course Content
Module 1: Foundations and Theories of Educational Administration
- Core concepts and terminology: administration versus educational administration.
- Classical organisation theory and its early framing of institutional structure.
- Human relations theory and its focus on people within the institution.
- Administrative, humanist, and systems theory as complementary lenses.
Module 2: Structure, Components, and Relationships
- How educational administration relates to and coordinates with other departments.
- The core components of educational administration, broken down in detail.
Module 3: Running the Institution Day to Day
- Taking full educational responsibility within the institution.
- Applying programmes suited to the institution's work.
- Distributing students across departments and levels using measures that protect their interests in every case.
Module 4: Communication and Team Development
- Communicating educational developments and explaining new programmes and methods for discussion.
- Taking a formative role: activating educational teams, revitalising institution boards, and honing the skills of beginners.
- Preparing appropriate educational methods and materials.
Module 5: Evaluation and Accountability
- Leading an evaluative role through continuous monitoring of students' and teachers' work.
- Assessing academic cost-effectiveness at every level and taking the initiatives needed to improve it.
- Carrying administrative, moral, and material responsibility for the institution.
Training Course Locations: Courses are held in Egypt, Jordan, Malaysia, Turkey, England, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Denmark, Australia, and the United States, at times and places that suit your schedule.
Training Program Delivery Styles:
- Group training at academy centres.
- Individual training.
- Field and practical training following an advanced curriculum.
- Theoretical training in dedicated academy classrooms.
What the Participant Receives: An accredited certificate from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy upon completing the programme.
Note: This course can be delivered at a time and place convenient for you, and is offered to high standards for senior participants — contact the Academy's team for more information.