Seminar for Department Chairs, held at De La Salle High School, summer 2007.

1. Doing What’s Important

3. being Department Chair

4. Categorizing Duties

5. Setting the budget Tracking the budget Scheduling teaching loads Scheduling students Ordering textbooks Ordering supplies Assigning year-end awards Attending Academic Council meetings Conducting Department meetings Mediating internal relationships Monitoring faculty Advocating internally External liaison Serving as role model Being curriculum leader Mediating Counseling Coaching Observing classroom teaching Interviewing for new hires Representing Department for tenure Managing departmental policies and procedures Integrating on-going professional development Graham and Benoit, 2004

6. Administrative roles Leadership roles Interpersonal roles Resource development Improving teaching & learning

8. Prioritizing Duties

9. Urgent but not important Urgent and important Not urgent and not important Not urgent but important Covey, 1990

10. Strategies

13. Karagos, 2006.