Walking Around School Management: A Leadership Technique for School Heads

Gretchen C. Puyot

The underlying concept is that in school organizations, command and order are inefficient. There is nothing more instructive than seeing and knowing about what transpires in real situations. Walking around school management is a leadership technique that has stood the test of time and that any school head can use. Except for virtual settings today— and most of us still don't work through these, even if we interface with them differently — face-to-face interaction remains a sure way to receive and provide feedback wherever the school head regularly sees teachers. Since it is people, not administrators, who produce the positive outcomes of a school and provide its services, and respect for that can only come from seeing what is happening in the school. Because teaching and non-teaching staff live to be part of something, and being intimately in touch opens up more informal lines of communication and produces stronger dynamics and performance in the team. The hand of man still works well.

To manage a school, there are some considerations that you need to do. They are listed below.

Walking around the school requires personal connection, respectable listening skills, and the appreciation that most people need to.

Teachers in a school want to play a role in its growth. It is not meant to be coerced, and cannot be a charade.

The works when you show sincerity and civility and are genuinely interested in employees and their work.

Attempt to wander about as often as you can, but daily, preferably recurrently. Relax while you do the rounds.

Share the good news and invite them.

Talk about family, hobbies, holidays, and sporting activities.

Screen without prejudice just listen.

Invite thoughts and opinions to enhance processes, goods, facilities, and so on. Be open to questions and concerns.

Look out to do everything better with the workers, and give them public attention. Project a coach and mentor 's portrait and not that of a school inspector. Provide on-the-spot support to your teachers.

Take the opportunity to convey the values of the school organization.

Swap the meaning of the stories and history.

Partake in your dreams.

Have fun on that.

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The author is Teacher III at San Leon Primary School, Moncada North

District