Question 1:
a) Analyze the extent to which Peters and Waterman’s diagnostic model for organizational efficacy can be applied to schools as strategically focused learning organizations and core social centers. Give illustrations to exemplify your answer.
b) Consider the responsibility of rectors and principals in their search of enhancement and transformation as strategic planners, administrators and leaders engaged in the systematic, sustained change which secures success for all students in all settings (Brian Caldwell, 2006). Validate your answer with illustrations.
c) One strategic capability of the school as a learning organization is mainly concerned with its organizational culture. Describe how this aspect stabilizes the environment and establishes the shared beliefs and values concerning the school’s internal functioning and external relationships. Validate your answer with illustrations.
Question 2: An efficient teaching-learning procedure in schools needs flexible structures and organization which reflect curriculum principles consistent with the requirements of all students. Substantiate this statement with illustrations.
Question 3: Analyze the concepts: effectiveness and efficiency, as applied to the schooling. Consider the possibility of extending decision-making associating to school-level choice, content and techniques in order to comprise the stakeholders in line with the Government’s policy to decentralize the education.
Question 4: The quality of the school can’t exceed the quality of teachers who are the key decisive actors.
(Brian Caldwell, 2006)
Validate this statement by drawing from illustrations from the teaching-learning procedure.