EDAD 9214 Principles and Current Issues of Educational Management 10 Credits
This Module provides a basic orientation to the purpose, organization, planning, leading, controlling, communicating, coordinating, evaluating and administering educational programs and institutions; the structure and control of school systems; the nature of administration; and the conceptual foundations of educational management. Discussion also includes management theories and their application. Abroad outlook on the management of material, people and money in the school system is highly emphasized.
This Module also describes issues in modern society related to the planning and management of academic learning in the modern world. The issues include the administration of distance learning centers and quality of education; the increased number of students and the quality of teaching. The teacher-student ratio and the quality of subject content. Quality and equity of universal primary and secondary education. Justification of the ban of corporal punishment. Teacher training facilities and student learning. The ethics of student and teacher demonstration in institutions of learning. School leadership and political and religious sponsors of institutions of learning. Liberalization and decentralization of education and quality control. The moral, professional, competitive and accountability imperatives in education. Global demands, education and national development.
EDAD 9221 Educational Planning 10 Credits
The planning of educational facilities includes its, vision, mission, philosophy and buildings, equipment, and sites as influenced by educational philosophy need and financial resources available; features of good school plants and their management; a comprehensive study of educational-facilities planning as related to preliminary development plans and long-range master planning of educational facilities/campuses.
EDAD 9222 Administrative Finance and Marketing 10 Credits This Module focuses on financial and economic issues affecting educational institutions, including school support, costs of education, sources of school revenue, budgeting, and the organizing and maintaining of the fiscal and physical resources of schools’ systems; elements of making an educational institution including mission statement, target market, image, position, the market mix (product, price, place and promotions), fund-raising, and alumni relations. This Module will also explore the basics concepts of accounting, reporting, analysis and interpretation of financial statements (working capital and liquidity). It will also analyze the values of money, income statement and expenditure, principles of time of value of money, introduction to costing principles and issues in strengthening the financial conditions of an institution or a business. The principles of marketing will be part of the module, marketing for non-profit institutions and the concepts and techniques that will be covered that include selection of target market, marketing program development, implementation and control of marketing strategies.
EDAD 9223 School Organization and Law 10 Credits This Module addresses legal issues affecting teachers and principals including church state issues, school board operation, teacher employment, and students’ welfare. It also explores parents’ involvement in education, conflict resolution, meaning of laws, classification of laws that affect educational institutions, fundamental laws and human rights.
EDAD 9224 Principalship and School Improvement 10 Credits
This Module explores the study of leadership and its dynamics as it applies to the administration of educational institutions highlighting planning and implementing changes for school improvement. The Module also describes the principals’ roles in providing moral, relational, instructional and administrative leadership within the context of school culture and in the management of the school’s resources such as human resources, financial resources, instructional resources and others.