It is important to identify the task areas of the educational administrator. What are the main task areas of educational administration?

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Answer:

Educational Management is a multi-faced activity. It is a social process that is designed to ensure cooperation participation, intervention and involvement of others in the effective achievement of given or determined objectives.

Management, being a social process, lays its major emphasis on the interaction of people-people, mar

inside and outside the institutions and people above and below one?s operational position. Thereto% aims and objectives of educational management have to be understand from the above dimension,  Several attempts have been made byÿEarly Childhood Education Trainingÿto define aims and objectives of educational management different terms.

Broadly the objectives:

To define the functions of the school.

• To plan for the future and arrange the plan of operation.
• To organize/build up the material and human resources required for proper running of the school
• To command the staff both teaching and non-teaching to do their work efficiently
• To co-ordinate the functions of various human elements and correlate all the activities.
• To control and to ensure everything is done in accordance with the rules which have been down and the instructions which have been given.
• To create environment and facilities for educational research etc

Functions of Educational Management/Administration

There are seven clearly defined functions of educational management which throw more light on viz. planning, organization, direction, control, co-ordination, evaluation and reporting. There are seven clearly defined functions of educational management which throw more believe it viz. planning, organization, direction, control, co-ordination, evaluation and reporting. 

Planning

Planning is the crucial step in the educational management. An unplanned management/administration will not go very far. Only a planned approach can achieve the desired. Planning should precede every performance.

Organisation

It is the fundamental task in every administration. Organization is the machine for getting thing done. It mainly concerned with provision, arrangement, and manpower, which enable the administration to carry out its functions. In fact administration works through the available organization.

Direction

It is the process of guiding the human efforts and achieving aims/objectives. Direction represents leadership; which has a key role to play in administrative. This is the authority, which direct thing done direction shows the way. It channelizes the entire organization towards the common goal.

In administration there is always the involvement of number of persons,. Different functionaries of the machinery are made to pursue the common goal by proper control failing which they pull in different directions.

Co-ordination

It is the process of harmonizing in a uniform way all the elements-the persons, materials and services so as to interweave them to achieve a common objective. For this purpose the management should clearly define (1) division of labour (2) allocation of tasks and control & supervision over the Die human or material elements and establishing good rapport/relationship between them.

Evaluation

It is the process of formulating judgment i.e. stocktaking of an administration. Since administration is a dynamic process, it has to be reviewed from time to time examining the extent to which objectives have been achieved, and reasons for failures Proper evaluation enable the management to understand its own strengths and weaknesses and planning for introduction of better techniques or discovery of new knowledge or processes.

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