A paper presented to AMIS in Lokoja 2016

1. YUSUF ADAM
(MCSE, CISE, CEH, ECSA, LPT, CHFI, PMP,MNIM,MCPN)
Knowledgebased Services Ltd
Abuja

2. INTRODUCTION
 Name
 Brief about your person
 Favourite food and drink
 Expectation
 1 things that put you off
“There is nothing so useless as
doing efficiently that which should
not be done at all.” – Peter F. Drucker

3. BRAIN TEASER
What do you understand by the phrase
“Qualitative Education?”
 Write your opinion in not more than one paragraph
 NO ANSWER IS WRONG!

5. Agenda
• Reason for starting a
school
• Category of schools
• Ideal Islamic School
• How to achieve the
standard
• Working together
• Celebrating Success

6. Reason for starting a school
 Business Opportunities
 Passion for training next generation
 Solve a perceived societal problem
 Just to please your creator
 As a legacy to leave behind
The reason determine your vision & mission

7. SAMPLE SCHOOL OBJECTIVES

8. Category of schools
 High Quality School
 Average Quality School
 Low Quality School
 Quality of Schools are determined by:
 Quality of Teachers
 Quality of Educational Facilities
 Quality educational materials (books, TA, equipment)
 Qualitative Implementation of curriculum
(supervision, monitoring & control)

9. Category of Schools
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2
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10. Ideal Islamic School
 Established as an act of worship & a form of da’awah
 Training Muslim children to compete with their
counterpart
 Preparing children for yet unknown technologies
 Preparing children for leadership
 Nurturing future Muslim Scholars
 Preparing them to fix the world
 Preparing them for Excellence
 Setting the pace for others to emulate

11. GoodManagementSkills

12. Plan, Implement, Evaluate &
Re-plan
 Proper Planning (structural, administrative, staffing,
finance, stakeholders)
 Separate yourself from school, all affairs of the school
should be business & official
 Budgeting & forecasting
 Control your expenditure because you income is
limited
 Use activity Quadrant to prioritize
 The School growth first before owners.
 Read, Learn continuously...
Be a Leader not a Boss

13.  A leader is best when people barely know that
he exists; not so good when people obey and
acclaim him, worst when they despise him.
 Fail to honour people, they fail to honour you.
But of a good leader who talks little, when his
work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say,
'We did this ourselves'.
 (Lao-Tzu 6th Century BC)
Quotes On Leadership

14. Quotes On knowledge
 "The more that you read, the more things you will
know. The more you learn, the more places you'll
go."
------- Dr. Seuss,
 "The man who does not read good books is no
better than the man who can't."
— Mark Twain
 The beautiful thing about learning is that no one
can take it away from you.
-- B.B. King
 Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
 ---Norman Vincent Peale

15. Quality of Teachers
 Selection of new teachers
 Improving the existing teachers
 Investing in capacity building
 Read books and attend workshop on school
management
 Managing poor performing Staff
 Find out his/her challenges
 Help solve the challenges
 Where the staff cannot improve,
 Or replace him/her

16. Qualitative Implementation of
curriculum
 Children were entrusted to you by parent to impact
knowledge on them according to the curriculum
 Provide necessary environment for the student to learn
 Provide competent representative that will help you
fulfil the trust
 Ensure proper supervision, monitoring & control
 Let your pupils attend quiz with other schools to
evaluate
 Counselling the teachers on classroom challenges
 Train teachers on how to improvise Teaching Aids
 Make them share your corporate vision
 Work with your staff as a team

17. Keeping Quality Staff
 Incentives
 Share his/her success and challenges
 Lead them, build them, grow with them
 Collaboration allows teachers to capture
each other's fund of collective
intelligence." –
 -Mike Schmoker
 Charge appropriate school fees
 Pay appropriate salary and timely
 Show them trust and assign responsibilities
If you treat your staff like spanners, they act like spanners.

18. Continuous Improvement
 Continuous improvement of Educational Facilities
 Invest in technology
 Invest in modern educational materials
 (books, Teaching Aids, equipment)
 Extra Curriculum training material
 (skill acquisition, games)
 Innovative ideas.. Making learning interesting to pupils &
parents
 Constantly have a controlled one-on-one relationship with
your pupils’ parents.
 Let them see the efforts your are making to give his/her ward
the best
 Encourage them to assist the school... Functional PTA

20. Working Together as AMIS
 AMIS member school should work as a team
 Do not compete but be partners
 Organised joint workshop for teachers to cut cost
 Share ideas
 Seek government intervention as an organization
 Organize quiz competition to control quality
 Allah instruct us to Stand up for the cause of Allah in
group or singly then ponder..

21. Teamwork
 Teamwork is the ability to direct individual
accomplishments toward organizational objectives or
common vision. It is the fuel that allows common
people to attain uncommon results.
 --Andrew Carnegie
 "If everyone is moving forward together, then success
takes care of itself." --Henry Ford
 “None of us is as smart as all of us."
 --Ken Blanchard

22. “
The best teamwork comes from men
who are working independently
toward one goal in unison.
--James Cash Penney

23. Celebrating Success
 When success is achieved
 Celebrate success together
 Attend each others activities
 Disconnect yourselves and your schools from
cultural backwardness of rivalry and unhealthy
competition
 A member’s growth is a benefit to the Ummah
and a pride for the Team

24. Thank you for listening.

25. Further research
1. School Management
 by M. Dash & Neena Dash
2. Effective School Management 4th Edition
 by K.B. Everard Geoff Morris (Author), Ian Wilson (Author)
3. Management Skills in Schools: A Resource for
School Leaders 1st Edition
 by Jeff Jones
4. http://www.educationalleaders.govt.nz/Managing-
your-school
All online materials used in the presentation are hereby
acknowledged