Faculty of Humanities and Education (Postgraduate) - The University ...

POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION
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COURSE CODE: EDEA 6117
COURSE TITLE: MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS
AND PROGRAMMES 1
NUMBER OF CREDITS: 4
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Overview
This course is divided into two parts – ED61Q and ED61T. ED61Q
is a prerequisite for ED61T. World trends in education seem to
suggest that much will be expected, and much demanded, of
teachers in the present millennium. Further, increasingly the
realities of decentralization and school-based management are
becoming more challenging. Coupled with these phenomena,
countries both developed and developing are now expressing
greater concern for quality and relevance in education. Indeed,
national and international reports seem to have accepted that
education is closely correlated to economic development, social
welfare, and world peace. However, the problem is: Who will be
the generals of this new thrust in education? Politicians have
formulated and will always continue to formulate educational
policy, but in very real terms the responsibility for translating
policy into reality rests ultimately with administrators at the
macro level in general and the micro levels in particular.
OBJECTIVES
Students will:
1. develop the skills, attitudes, and competencies to help
them cope with the imperatives and mandates for running
educational organisations in a context of rapid change;
2. commit to an understanding of leadership known as
transformational leadership;
3. demonstrate use of information and communication
technologies in re-conceptualising, redesigning, and reengineering
solutions to problems within their schools;
4. apply understandings of human resource management,
development planning, curriculum management, and
evaluation in managing their schools.
CONTENT
Module 1 - Preliminary Perspectives
• Introduction and overview of the course
• Secondary school organisation in Trinidad and Tobago
• Introduction to the management of educational
programmes with emphasis on the law and ethics
• Managing educational change
• School administration management and information
technology: An overview, challenges and possibilities
• Introduction to data base management
Module 2 - Development Planning
• The Nature, dynamics, and importance of development
planning
• Introduction to project planning and proposal writing
• Policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation in the
secondary school sector
• Community relations and extending the resource base of
secondary schools
• School effectiveness and school improvement in the
secondary school sector
Module 3 - Human Resource Management
• Managing people strategically for collegiality, efficiency,
effectiveness, and job satisfaction
• Organizational culture and climate
• The learning organization
• Human resources development
• Organizational renewal
• Conflict resolution in our schools
• Systems of student control with emphasis on the
democratic and humane: An overview, rationales, relevance,
and effectiveness to our secondary school sector
• Performance management and appraisal in secondary
schools
Methods of Delivery
• Introductory lectures to emphasize the extent and depth
of the topic as well as areas of particular importance and
concern
• Organizing issues for deliberation and activities so that
participants will be able to have opportunities to simulate
the creation of new cultures for their school
• Ensuring that participants make use of opportunities
provided for intense interaction, discussion, and reflection
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