QUESTION 1

You have been newly appointed the Head of a Secondary School. All through the first week of your appointment in office and on your supervisory school duties and classroom visits, you get feeling that some members of both your teaching and non-teaching staffs and a great majority of your students are demotivated. Academic results have been poor and there are lots of covert problems. In fact you observe that much has to be done.

a) Discuss some of measures which you, as Head of the School, would adopt to motivate your staffs and students to give the best of them.

b) You have to show an understanding of some motivation theories and their application to this issue.

QUESTION 2

A Common Mission, Emphasis on Learning and A Climate Conducive to Learning are three core characteristics of effective schools. Essentially elaborate on any one of them and say what Heads of Schools can do to make their schools more effective.


QUESTION 3

Examine some of the procedures which Heads of Schools should adopt to create and maintain a learning culture at the level of their institutions.

QUESTION 4

Organisations are ‘closed' and/or ‘open' systems. The ‘openness' and ‘closeness' of any organisation is determined by degree of interaction which occurs with the external environment. Write down what do you understand by ‘closed' and ‘open' systems of organisation. Examine crucially whether schools are ‘closed' and ‘open' systems. Maintain with examples.

QUESTION 5

Values and ethics are crucial for survival of any profession. Examine some of the ethical values and code of conduct that Heads of schools have to plan and adopt in order to improve further their practice.