Summary
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The SAGE Handbook of School Organization presents a substantial review of the history, current status and future prospects of the field of school organization. Bringing together chapters exploring key issues, important debates and points of tension, the Handbook highlights the dynamics and interplay of the political, social, historical and cultural contexts of the field. This volume is designed to provide a much-needed critically informed and coherent account of the field, against a backdrop of increasing complexity in which schooling as an institution and schools as organizations operate. Part I: Schools as organizations; Part II: The leadership, management and governance of schools as organizations; Part III: Theoretical perspectives on schools as organizations; Part IV: Organizing in schools; and Part V: Researching schools as organizations.
School Effectiveness and School Organization
School Effectiveness and School Organization
Introduction
Within the framework of multi-level educational systems, the school level should be seen from the perspective of creating, facilitating and stimulating conditions for effective instruction at class level. Major vehicles of support to teaching are:
- the establishment of action plans, such as school curricula, mission statements and preferred teaching strategies;
- coordination of goals, structural arrangements and the primary process of teaching among staff members;
- school policies and practices concerning evaluation, assessment and monitoring;
- the provision of adequate teaching facilities, such as textbooks, computers, multi-media applications;
- external contacts in the service of real-life applications and authentic learning environments;
- facilities for the professional development of teachers and in-service training; and
- the engagement of parents in facilitating teaching.
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