COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND PROBLEMS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Educational Administration and Supervision (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ALI AKSU

Offered to

Educational Administration and Supervision (Evening)

Course Objective

Recognising school and school management, understanding the function of management processes in the school, developing a perspective towards the human relations in the school management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognising the education system in general.
2   Recognising the school as an organization and understanding its place in the education system.
3   Acquiring knowledge about the dimensions of the school as an organization.
4   Understanding the function of management processes in school.
5   Being able to evaluate the characteristics that school administrators have to obtain.
6   Acquiring the legal knowledge that school administrators have to follow.
7   Understanding the duties, authority and responsibilities of school administrators.
8   Understanding the importance of human relations in school administration.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, the objectives, importance, teaching methods of the lesson and the resources
2 School as a social system and its place in the education system. Lecture, seminar and discussion
3 The dimensions of the school as an organization (purpose, structure, process, and climate) Lecture, seminar and discussion
4 The characteristics that school administrators should acquire. Lecture, seminar and discussion
5 Decision-making processes in the school management. Lecture, seminar and discussion
6 Communication processes and effects in the School. Lecture, seminar and discussion
7 Administrator-staff relationships and meetings, boards, commissions in the school. Lecture, seminar and discussion
8 Mid-term exam
9 Cliques, conflicts, groups and conflict resolution in the school. Lecture, seminar and discussion
10 The rights of the child and the binding legal rules of school administration. Lecture, seminar and discussion
11 The authority, roles and responsibilities of school administrators. Lecture, seminar and discussion
12 Skills of human relations that school administrators have to obtain Lecture, seminar and discussion
13 Time management in the school. Lecture, seminar and discussion
14 Characteristics of effective schools. Lecture, seminar and discussion
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Açıkalın, A. (1998). Toplumsal kuramsal ve teknik yönleriyle okul yöneticiliği. Ankara: Pegem.
Aydın, M. (1991). Eğitim Yönetimi: kavramlar kuramlar süreçler ilişkiler Ankara: Hatiboğlu Yayınevi.
Balcı, A. (2011). Etkili okul, okul geliştirme: Kuram uygulama ve araştırma. (5. bs). Ankara: Pegem.
Bursalıoğlu, Z. (1999). Okul Yönetiminde Yeni Yapı ve Davranışlar. Ankara: PEGEM.
Day, C., Sammons, P., Leithwood, K., Hopkins, D., Harris, A., Gu, Q. et al. (2010). Ten strong claims about successful school leadership. Nottingham: The National College for School Leadership.
Gürsel, M. (2008). Türk eğitim sistemi ve okul yönetimi. Ankara: Pegem.
Heck, R. H., & Hallinger, P. (2010). Testing a longitudinal model of distributed leadership effects on school improvement. The Leadership Quarterly, 21(5), 867 885.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

idris.sahin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 7 91
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 194

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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