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| Managing
the Curriculum and Resources |
The curriculum of a school includes not just the planned academic
programme but also all co-curricular activities and other events,
as well as that which pupils learn through the nature and quality
of the school ethos.
The main task of the head of each school is to provide and deliver
effectively an appropriate curriculum using all the resources
- human, material and financial - which are readily available.
This involves mobilising all possible resources including those
from the Ministry of Education, the community and other organisations,
and then ensuring their full and effective use.
In this module we aim at improving your skills in different
aspects of curriculum management, including timetabling, curriculum
development and assessment, and resource management, including
the provision of textbooks, library and media resources, and
their control. The material in Module 5 on Financial Management
will provide you with more information about mobilising and
managing financial resources.
Individual study time: 25 hours
Objectives
After working through this module you should be able to:
• improve your effectiveness as the manager of the curriculum
and the resources which support it
• identify how to
mobilise financial and material resources for your school and
ensure their full and effective use
• demonstrate improved
stock-keeping in your school
• know how the curriculum
of your school may be adapted to the human and natural environments
within which it is located, and ensure these environments are
used
• be a more effective manager of change, and know
how to regularly update your school curriculum
• ensure
your school has a well designed and operated timetable
•
draw up and apply criteria for the selection of textbooks, and
ensure that those available are fully used and properly managed
• suggest ways of improving the library, media and lowcost
teaching aids, including their use
• improve the quality
of pupil assessment, including providing orderly examining,
regular and systematic testing, and full and accurate records.
Units
This module is divided into eight units.
Unit
1: Establishing the curriculum
2 hours
The curriculum of your school needs to be adapted to the human
and natural environments within which it is located, and to
be continuously updated. This unit aims at enabling you to establish
your curriculum within the national framework, recognise the
diverse nature of the curriculum and undertake its development.
Unit 2: Timetabling
3 hours
In this unit you will identify some of the issues in designing
and operating your school timetable, including the need for
careful preparation and finding ways of organising the timetable
to make full use of your teachers, to follow ministry requirements
and yet adapt it to the special conditions of your school, and
to provide your pupils with choice.
Unit 3: Organising resources to
support the curriculum
3 hours
Through this unit you identify the range of resources which
are needed by your school, and the difficulties of obtaining
them. You will learn how resources may be produced and acquired,
and how they may be properly managed.
Unit
4: Selecting and managing textbooks
4 hours
Textbooks provide one of the key teaching and learning resources
in your school. You will develop criteria for their selection,
and learn how to ensure that the books are fully and properly
used.
Unit 5: Libraries, media, and lowcost teaching aids
4 hours
There are many ways in which the resources of your school may
be improved. In this unit you will identify ways of developing
three particular types of resource and how they may be managed.
Unit 6: Examinations, testing and
record-keeping
3 hours
The assessment of the progress of your pupils provides a measure
of the level of their performance, which is one of the purposes
for which your school exists. In this unit you will review different
aspects of assessment, including the importance of record-keeping
as a means of maintaining a profile of the progress of each
pupil.
Unit 7: Resource maintenance
3 hours
Through this unit you will recognise the importance of keeping
good stock records and learn of ways in which this may be done.
Unit 8: Finding financial resources
3 hours
Here you will recognise that although governments provide some
resources for your school, you cannot expect to rely entirely
on this source, and so you need to find ways of adding to those
you have.
Contributors
This module was written by a team in Botswana:
Mr R Motswakae
(Team Leader) Deputy Director, Unified Teaching Service
Mr S Basiamang Head, Molefi Senior Secondary School
Mr W Grisdale Headteacher Adviser, Department of Secondary Education
Mr T Mosimakoko Head, Miasantwa Primary School
Mr S Motswaledi Regional Education Officer (Primary)
with:
Mr J Gabi Head, Lebogang Community Junior Secondary School
Mr G Grimshaw Head, Selibe Phikwe Senior Secondary School
Mr S Lopang Head, Segomotso Primary School
Mr F Maoto Head, Boikhutso Community Junior Secondary School
Mr M Seriti Head, BoswelaKgomo Primary School
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