Educational Matters for School Administrators and Operators: A Handy Tool for School Administrators and Proprietors of Primary and Secondary Schools

By Aigbe Osalumese Samson

Twenty-first century education has really gone far. Many innovations and developments have taken the lead in primary and secondary education all around the world. Many schools today come up with better service delivery and new ways of handling children, especially in the elementary school stage. However, despite these new trends in education, many schools are still failing in their delivery. For some, it is their teaching methods; while for others, it is the lack of customer service approach, which is yet another neglect in paying attention to details in child psychology, student services, or financial drawback.

It is in the mist of these myths that educational matters for school administrators and operators were born to bring solutions to these problems and give relevant steps, which will help make a better primary and secondary education if followed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796034271

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Rev. date: 06/24/2019

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1.

Setting up a school.

Recruiting the right employee

Staff motivation in a working environment

Organogram in school administration

Chapter 2.

Exhibitions in schools

The School Year Book

Managing relationship and partnership in school business.

Reason for failure in school management

The challenges of running a school

Chapter 3

The Just One Teacher

Common Teachers Challenges

Teacher’s migration from school to school.

Chapter 4.

Career Hazards in teaching profession

Time Management in Teaching Profession

Chapter 5.

The impact of subjects on student productivity

Managing student behaviors in school

Student of the month award as motivation in schools

Chapter 6

Relevance of a school in a community

Managing the expectation of service delivery

System and Structures in school Management.

Leadership system in school management

Relevance of history in our educational system.

Introduction.

21st - century education has really gone far. Many innovations and development have taken the lead in primary and secondary education all around the world. Many schools today come up with better service delivery and new ways of handling children, especially at the elementary school stage.

However, with these new trends in education, many schools are still failing in their deliveries. For some, it is their teaching methodologies while for others, it is the lack of customer service approach. For others, their shortcoming is in paying attention to details in child psychology, student services or financial constraints.

It is in the midst of these myths that educational matters for school administrators and operators were born. To bring a solution to these problems and give relevant steps needed to make a better primary and secondary education.

Aigbe Osalumese Samson

(Educational consultant, President and founder LILSAMBETH GLOBAL CONSULT).

Acknowledgement

Thank you, God for giving me the inspiration, grace, and ability to write this book which is my legacy for the next generation that is coming up.

My special thanks go to the following persons:

• The staff and management of LILSAMBETH GLOBAL CONSULT for offering me the support and platform to grow and serve as the President.

• My lovely wife, Mrs. Lilian Aigbe and my daughters Bethel Aigbe and Eriomo Aigbe for standing by me in prayers and supporting me morally on this piece of work.

• My able colleague and friend Solabomi Mosunmola Fajorin for making out time from her busy schedule to proofread and edit my manuscript.

• Special thanks to my friends and colleague Miss Oluchi Anozie and Miss Lilian Chinelo onyezereigbo for editing my manuscript.

• The management, board of directors and staff of Tender Years School Abuja, Nigeria, for giving me the opportunity and platform to serve and function as the head of the science department and other administrative capacities.

• Thanks to my mentor Professor Al-Hassan Conteh, Ph.D. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Liberia to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Benin, Equatorial Guinea and Permanent Representative of ECOWAS for his professional and fatherly advice he gave me on the first contact with him.

• Thanks to our media partners vision FM 92.1 Abuja and owners of Farin Wata TV.

• Thanks to my book consultant Marie Owens, Ivan Carville my submission officer, Kaye Parsons and the entire Xlibris team for their support in the entire publishing process of my book.

The number one priority of every parent is to send their children to school to acquire knowledge from infancy to adulthood.

Chapter 1.

Setting up a school.

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Do you have a passion for children?

Do you have a passion for holistic education for children?

The number one priority of every parent is to send their children to school to acquire knowledge from infancy to adulthood.

The school fees for these children take a huge portion of what parents are working for depending on the number of children they have. This is because education is the backbone of any society.

How do you set up a school?

Different factors must be considered when setting up a school. Factors like dealing with money issues, when there is a financial constraint. Managing your staff well in terms of salary, their behaviors and attitude to work and staff resignation unexpectedly on the job.

Time sacrifice for the school to grow and develop into a big school because it is the desire of every school owner to see their school grow.

Emotional stress that comes with the job, and so on. But above all, passion for education and for children will take you very far in school business.

It is the passion you have for the children in your school, or the value you want to add to the lives of the children in your school, that will drive quality educational services. It is your passion for education that will keep you afloat in the midst of competition with other competitors in the business.

In setting up a school, you need to determine the age group of the children you want to start with. Then consider the following steps:

1.) Write a mission and vision statement for the school you want to set up. This should focus more on your reason for setting up the school. Your school philosophy, values and morals should be reflected in this statement.

2.) You need to decide on what curriculum you want to run, and then approach the relevant educational authorities for certification; as well as the Corporate Affairs Commission for the registration of your school. Search for experienced people like teachers, school owners, people already in the business, seek their opinions on the way to go about school matters.

3.) You need to create the business entity of your school i.e. determine if your school will be for business purposes or non-profit (or both). Also, create a 5 to 10 years business plan of your school, including operational and educational plans (such as educational focus, curriculum implementation, and assessment). You need to