...condition of our society depends on our children, who will become the leaders of tomorrow. Therefore, because of the total roles of primary school head master one can rightly regard them as important builders of our future generation. Head masters in primary schools occupy vital position in the administration of the school, and in moulding the lives of children. They are individuals who have unique ways of carrying out their job. The peculiarity of an individual human being is manifested in perception. Communication, attitude behavior and intelligence. Therefore, the leadership style of any primary school headmaster affects the working situation positively or negatively which may result in god or poor performances of the children (pupils) in the school. The degree of relationship between the headmaster and teachers determine the effectiveness of leadership of headmaster. According to (NPE 3:14) the objectives of primary education are: 1. The inculcation of permanent literacy, numeracy and ability to communicate effectively. 2. The laying of sound basis for scientific and reflective thinking. 3. Citizenship education as a basis for effective participation in and contribution to the life of the society. 4. Character and moral training and the development of sound attitudes. 5. Developing in the child, the ability to adapt to his challenging environment. 6. Giving the child opportunities for developing manipulative skills that will enable him to function...
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...at the school, they are welcomed by a nice looking maid. The headmaster’s wife is talking to them before her husbond arrives. The wife is very friendly and when the headmaster arrives she is showing the boy the prepschool. The headmaster is in the meantime talking to the parents. When the boy gets back from the tour he has been talking to some of the boys at the school. The boys were not very friendly, and have told him that they will mash him if he is going to this school. The parents on the other hand has already decided that the boy is going at the school. They talk about it in the car, and just after they have agreed to send the their son to the school, they ask the boy if he wants to go there. The boy still doesn’t reply. This story takes place in a very rich environment. The house for instance is a period house wich looks like an old mansion. The door is also opened by the maid and the magazines the headmaster couple read is also very typical for the upper middle class. The headmastercouple are actually very diffrent from each other. The wife is very kind and polite, and I believe that the children at the school is very fond of her. She is also very down to earth, she doesn’t care weather the family lives in Finchley or Hampstead. Unlike the headmaster she is used to children. The headmaster is very awkward around children, he puts his cloumsy hand on the boy’s head. It doesn’t seem as if he nows how to handle children. He is a perfectionist, you can see ...
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...teachers and managers, who with education specialty, are grouped according to educate students. There are four phases of management control process: Programming, budgeting, measuring and Reporting and evaluating. In Programming phase, Boulder public schools are follow a tripartite objective: quality education, equal access, and accountability. At time same time, they want to reduce operational inefficiencies. Based on these strategies, the superintendent provided detailed plan in a document of about 100 pages long, and the other two supplement files. In budgeting phase, principals and headmasters need strictly follow instructions from superintendent’s documents. The budget packets including almost every perspective of school operation: School profile, requesting formulation of goals and program directions etc. The budgeting phase don’t provide much flexibility to principals and headmasters. The budget is simply a maintenance budget, combine old expending with a few new initiatives and a few cut. In measuring phase, Boulder public school required to report dropouts, graduation rate and fund spending etc. Most schools are keep booking their expanse, and report to Department of implementation quickly. There is no clear reporting and evaluating phase mentioned in this case. Balance Between Centralization and Decentralization From assess of management control...
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...This definition of accountability is borrowed from World Bank, World Development Report 2004 Making Services Work for Poor People. Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2003. Web, p. 47. 2 3 Ernst and Young. Right to Education Report. March 2012. Web. Ibid. 4 5 See, e.g. Saxena, Shobhan. “Missing teachers are India’s weakest link.” The Times of India. Sep. 5, 2010. Web. See, e.g. Chowdry, Anirvan, “Carrots for Teachers,” Accountability Initiative. Dec. 1, 2011. Web. 6 Government of India, RTE, Chapter 4, Article 21, Clause 1. 7 8 Ibid, Chapter 4, Article 21, Clause 1. Ministry of Human Resource Development, G.S.E. 301(E), Part II, Ch. 3, Article 5. 9 Government of India, RTE, Chapter 4, Article 22, Clause 2(a) and 2(c). 10 Ibid, Chapter 4, Article 22, Clause 2(b). For both upper and lower primary schools. OECD. Public and Private Schools: How Management and Funding Relate to their Socio-economic Profile. PISA. OECD Publishing. 2012. Web. 12 11 Figure 2 - Source: 2007 and 2011 and 2012 ASER Reports Authors' calculations of average attendance in Primary Schools and Upper Primary Schools (weighted by number of schools in each category). Figure 3 - Source: 2011 and 2012 ASER Report Figure 4 – Relationships between grants, material inputs, attendance, and learning outcomes. Arrows indicate some evidence of a statistically significant relationship according to authors’ analysis of ASER-PAISA, PAISA-DRC, and DISE datasets. 13 Demographic variables...
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...Next Term, We’ll Mash You Would you like to go to a school, which your parents have chosen for you and where the other students beat up the new kids? That is what Next Term, We’ll Mash You written by Penelope Lively is about. In the short story we are introduced to Charles, the protagonist, and his parents, who take a visit to St. Edward’s Preparatory School, which is a very fine school. While the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Manders, speak to the headmaster, the wife of the headmaster shows Charles the school and let him talk to some of the student. She leaves Charles and the inquisitive student alone and in between all the questioning the words “Next term, we’ll mash you” are said. The main theme of the text is expectations from parents. There is another side theme which could be defined as wanting to please your parent or being obliged to speak up for your own sake. A different and third theme could be social status or ones position in society. The text is a short story because there are few characters involved. The plot takes place over a short period of time and is told chronologically. The narrator is an all-knowing 3rd who has the ability to reveal the characters thought. Mostly, it is the parents thought we hear about and not Charles. We can only imagine what he is thinking on the basis of his appearance. Charles appears as an uncertain and indecisive boy. It tells from these quotes “The child hesitated, stood up, sat, then rose again with his father” (p.2,...
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...1.Write a dialogue between Jony and Nadim about illiteracy. Jony: Hello Nadim. How are you? Nadim: Fine. Thank you. What’s about you? Jony: I am also fine.thanks. May I know your opinion about Illiteracy? Nadim: yes. It’s a great problem and curse for our country. Jony: How? Nadim: You know, Education is the back bone of a nation. No nation can prosper without education. Jony: What should we do then? Nadim: We should work hand to hand to remove illiteracy. Jony: We should also need to create public awarness. Nadim: Yes, of course. It’s a vital factor. Jony: Thank you. Nadim: Welcome. 2.Write a dialogue between Nadim and Noyon about Tree plantation. Nadim: Hello Noyon , How are you? Noyon: Fine. Thank you. What’s about you? Nadim: I am also fine.thanks.Where are you going? Noyon: I am going to attend the tree plantation program. Nadim: What do you need to plant trees? Noyon: Don’t you know about the important of tree plantation. Nadim: Sorry friends. I don’t know. Noyon: Ok, I shall tell about it. Nadim: Please do. Noyon: Tree’s are very useful to us. They help us many Ways. They give us food shelter and shade. They also give us oxyzen and prevent natural calamities. Nadim: Yes, Now I can realize. When should we plant trees? Noyon: June and July are the...
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...failure Obi fails as headmaster and agent of modernization. 3) mimicry He adopts and reproduces the colonizers’ cultural habits and values and becomes himself an agent of European modernization. In short M. Obi tries to be “more British” than the British (which the supervisor criticizes as a “misguided zeal” and) which results in a tribal war situation and Obi’s failure as headmaster. Summary Michael Obi is appointed to headmaster of Ndume Central School, an “unprogressive” school which he wants to modernize according to British standards. He and his wife want to turn the school compound into “a place of beauty” so they grow flowerbeds as is typical of English school compounds. One day an old woman from the village tramples straight through the hedges and flowerbeds they grow. Michael Obi finds out that a path crossing the compound connects the village shrine with the place of burial. However he dismisses this as primitive superstition and closes the path. When the village priest asks for the path to be re-opened, Obi doesn’t cooperate. Two days later a young woman dies in childbed and the next day one of the school buildings is pulled down and the hedges and flowerbeds are devastated by people from the tribe who believe the closure of the path was the reason for the woman’s death. The very same day a white supervisor arrives to inspect the school and fins it in ruins. In his report he writes about a “tribal war” situation. So Obi failed as headmaster by trying to be...
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...humor, his character always can make us laugh. I like the scene that he called James “Jimmy,Jimmy,Jimmy” . It’s so cute. The film is very different from the other films I have seen in class. First, this film is totally narrate in chronological order and the characters in this movie are all kind. Second, in Wonder Boys it has voiceover, a narrator Grady himself. Third, it’s a totally comedy, though there is some helpless emotion in the film, we can still find the humor in it. The film is about a professor of English at the university called Grady. Seven years ago his novel made him famous, become the Wonder boy. But seven years later, his writing into a bottleneck, for seven years he haven't finished a novel. His wife left him, and the headmaster his affair told him she was pregnant and the child’s father was Grady. But his unlucky things are not end yet, in the headmaster’s house after the party, he was bitten by the crazy dog. And his students James, in order to save him, James use the gun shot and kill the crazy dog. And then two people with a dead dog started to find the solution. Meanwhile, James took the collection of headmaster’s husband, the jacket that Monroe wear when her get married. For the explicitly presented events, such as Grady, he has written a novel for seven years, but it still haven’t finished yet, Grady even don’t know what did he write, he just can’t stop writing. Also, like James, he likes staying with his teacher Grady, his parents has...
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...sense it’s a rich environment because the school is a giant mansion, with swimming pool. That isn’t common for a boarding school. Charles family is rich too, since they can afford it. I assume Charles is an only child because the parents are sending him to that boarding school. The parent’s ambitions for the son aren’t what you would call normal. The headmaster of the school says that Charles attendance will be an investment for his parents. Most parents would see their son at a school that he or she likes, and not the other way around. Charles is maybe 6 -10 years old, since he’s attending to a preparatory school. He is very nervous. It’s seen when he sits in the car. He doesn’t want to eat his chocolate and read his comics. He’s silent through out the visit and he just follows the adults around the hallways. The most strong signal that Charles doesn’t want to attend to the school is when (and i assume) an echo is running through his head with the voice of the boy that said he would mash him next term. The headmaster and his wife isn’t described with words or thoughts of the characters but of what I’ve read i assume that the headmaster and his wife is a bit snobbish, likeable and stylish people. The title reflects the story. I suspect that the reason it’s called “the Happiest Days of your Life” and not “The Happiest Days of my Life” is the way Charles parents treat him. They don’t allow him to decide for him self. Even though he only is a youngster he is allowed to have a bit influence...
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...called in to the headmaster’s office. The headmaster, Mr. Woodsworth, tells Jerome that his father has died in an accident. Jerome has always thought that his father was some Secret Service Agent for Britain. He therefore assumes that his father was killed in a gunfight. Mr. Woodsworth then tells that his father was killed by a pig fallen on him. Jerome reacts in a special way; he doesn’t cry or show any grief. The accident is rather comical than sad to other people. When Jerome gets older he is ashamed of telling people how his father died. At some point people starts to call him pig. When Jerome gets engaged later in life he still is embarrassed about the accident. Jerome and his fiancée Sally avoid his aunt. But when his aunt finally tells Sally about the accident Sally doesn’t laugh, but she becomes saddened to what happened. This makes Jerome happy and he finally has a bright positive attitude. Jerome becomes a happier person at the end of the story. Sally changes him in a good way. 3. At the beginning of the story Jerome becomes a victim of his father’s death. He gets more and more embarrassed of the accident and people starts to call him pig. This makes Jerome’s life hard and embarrassed. But at the end his fiancé hears about the accident. But she doesn’t laugh, she gets sad. This is changes Jerome’s life. He gets a more positive attitude and he is happy. 2. The irony is placed between the dialogue between the headmaster and Jerome at the beginning of the story...
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...sense it’s a rich environment because the school is a giant mansion, with swimming pool. That isn’t common for a boarding school. Charles family is rich too, since they can afford it. I assume Charles is an only child because the parents are sending him to that boarding school. The parent’s ambitions for the son aren’t what you would call normal. The headmaster of the school says that Charles attendance will be an investment for his parents. Most parents would see their son at a school that he or she likes, and not the other way around. Charles is maybe 6 -10 years old, since he’s attending to a preparatory school. He is very nervous. It’s seen when he sits in the car. He doesn’t want to eat his chocolate and read his comics. He’s silent through out the visit and he just follows the adults around the hallways. The most strong signal that Charles doesn’t want to attend to the school is when (and i assume) an echo is running through his head with the voice of the boy that said he would mash him next term. The headmaster and his wife isn’t described with words or thoughts of the characters but of what I’ve read i assume that the headmaster and his wife is a bit snobbish, likeable and stylish people. The title reflects the story. I suspect that the reason it’s called “the Happiest Days of your Life” and not “The Happiest Days of my Life” is the way Charles parents treat him. They don’t allow him to decide for him self. Even though he only is a youngster he is allowed to have a bit...
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...car with his parents. The family is on their way to a preparatory school. Charles’ parents will see if it would be a nice place for Charles to continue his education. The fees are much higher then his old school – Seaford. When they enter the school, they meet a woman who tells them to wait for the headmaster to be there. After talking a bit in the room where they were placed, the headmaster’s wife enters the room. Immediately she apologizes for her husband – the headmaster. After talking with the headmaster’s wife the headmaster comes in. the headmaster’s wife takes Charles away to meet the other students. They enters a room where some of the boys are playing, there are very noisy in there, but the boys become quit the second Charles and the woman enters. The woman leaves Charles in the room full of the boys, and the other boys gather around him in a circle. They ask him a lot of questions. He’s confused and forgets to listen to the boys – he looks at the clouds and he’s daydreaming, but suddenly he hear someone telling him, that when and if he starts at the school they will mash him and that they mash all of the new boys. After the parents are done talking with the headmaster, the headmaster’s wife comes in and brings him back to his parents, who are already in the car. The parents talks about the school on their way back and decides it’s a very pleasant school for Charles. When the mother ask him if he would like to go there, the child doesn’t answer, he just looks straight...
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...The short story "Dead Men's Path" is written by one of Africa’s most acclaimed writers, Chinua Achebe, who grew up in a Christian family. The main character in the story is Michael Obi, a young and energetic perfectionist who is excited about modernize everything of a traditional school after he got assigned as the new headmaster. Not a while into his job, Michael finds that along with his misguided enthusiasm, ignoring the traditions and beliefs of the villagers can have great consequences. The major theme of this story is the collision between new ideas and traditions. Society can move forward by adapting new ideas, but still maintain respect for past traditions and maintain cultural beliefs. The fact that Obi and his wife are obsessed with modernizing everything is pretty obvious in the story. After Obi was assigned the job of headmaster, he and his wife are both eager to bring new ideas and share the modern life with everyone. Chinua Achebe shows their modern enthusiasm when he writes: "We shall do our best,” Obi's wife replied. "We shall have such beautiful gardens and everything will be just modern and delightful…” (200). He also shows Obi's views of the traditionalist people by attacking their character referring to them as, "these old and superannuated people in the teaching field” (200). An unused path started the collision between new ideas and traditions. In time the gardens blossomed with beautiful red and yellow flowers. As Obi is admiring his work, he comes across...
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...Dead Filipe Beauduy ENC 1102 October 1, 2015 Final Revision Dead Man’s Path Essay The story of a “Dead man’s Path” by Chinua Achebe is a very interesting one that ended in destruction. One of the main characters, Michael Obi, who was appointed the headmaster of Ndume Central wanted change and discipline in the students he was in charge of. The many that had taken on the task in the past had failed, and he wanted to be one of the very first to impress the superintendent, but what he didn’t realize is that with change comes compromise. Obi had many accomplishments he wanted to achieve being the headmaster. He brought his wife onboard to help him achieve those goals, one of which was to help rebuild the garden in the back of the school. She was delighted to do so, and being the wife of a husband who was the headmaster. Obi had his mind in the right place when he wanted to bring these changes in the school, changes that had never been made before, but the problem with that was he wanted it all done at once. One of his failures, but not his biggest one, was that he was determined for change so that he could impress the superintendent, show him that he could be different from the others that had come before him. Upon arrival at the school, he demanded better from the teachers by bossing them around. His wife would throw a lot of weight around, being that she was the headmaster’s wife, but when she found out the teachers were single she became...
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...ambitious headmaster named Obi who soon finds that his ignorance over the ancestry of his people can bring about the worst of fates. Tradition is the main theme of this story, as the purpose of the ancient path is discovered and the reactions from Obi and the villagers define the importance of tradition to everyone involved. As events progress, Obi ignores the culture that his own ancestors once followed, soon finding that the passion of a person's beliefs can overcome all obstacles- whether the headmaster wants that or not. It is because of these factors that "A Dead Man's Path" best illustrates the importance of respecting and remembering traditions that may seem odd and old-fashioned, but have lived long in the hearts of the people who follow them. The story takes place in Africa, and Obi, the main character, had just received news that he would be running a school that had been in dire need of help within the region. Obi is a bright young individual, and both he and his wife act as representatives to a more modern way of viewing the world. Chinua Achebe further shows this fact very early in the story, on the third paragraph: "'We shall do our best,' she (Obi's wife) replied. 'We shall have such beautiful gardens and everything will be just modern anddelightful.'" (Achebe 476). They are energetic and spirited, especially Obi, who is ambitious enough to want to see that his new school will be the best that he can make it. It is not long before the new headmaster wants to make...
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