The field of education administration and planning is an ideal career area for teachers who want to improve themselves in strategic thinking and vision creation.

Topics
1    The concepts of leadership and management, the differences and similarities of leadership and management, administration and management; educational Administration and management
2    Leadership theories and leadership types and styles           
3    Schools of Management thought           
4    The theories of educational administration; Relationship between theory and practice           
5    Principles of educational administration           
6    Leadership and School Effectiveness           
7    The School as a Social system           
8    Formal and Informal organisations           
9    Decision making in Organisations           
10    Motivation/Job Satisfaction of workers           
11    Organisational culture and climate           
12    Educational administrators: principal or principalship functions of principals; roles of teachers; organizational structure of education and management  techniques           
13    Functional Assessment Test           
14    Policy issues           
15    Issues on Educational Planning and Educational planning dimensions           
16    Approaches to educational planning-social demand, manpower requirements, cost benefit and synthetic approaches           
17    Data needed for educational planning           
18    Constraints in educational planning           
19    Revision           

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