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ESSAY TYPE QUESTIONS
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MFP2601
ALL LEARNING UNITS
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Contents
LEARNING UNIT 1 ........................................................................................................................................... 9
1. Define the following concepts ............................................................................................................... 9
1.1 Management ................................................................................................................................. 9
1.2 Leadership ..................................................................................................................................... 9
1.3 School Governing Body ............................................................................................................... 9
1.4 Diversity ......................................................................................................................................... 9
1.5 Human Resources........................................................................................................................ 9
2. “Henri Fayol divided the management function into five key roles and actions (Marino,
2009)” ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
Name and discuss each role. (10) .......................................................................................... 10
3. “Scholars such as Pretorius, Kruger and Van Schalkwyk ), Van Deventer and Click go the
extra mile by narrating how school managers have to plan, organise, lead and control
activities within the school” .................................................................................................................. 10
Briefly explain how school managers execute their management functions in Foundation
Phase.
(20) 10
3.1 Planning ......................................................................................................................................... 10
3.2 Organising ...................................................................................................................................... 11
3.3 Leading ........................................................................................................................................... 11
3.4 Control ........................................................................................................................................... 12
4. “Horswell (2003:5) identifies ten fundamental ideas on leadership which are applicable to all three
phases of early childhood development” ................................................................................................ 12
Identify and explain any five .................................................................................................................... 12
5. Name and discuss five management styles underpinning quality of management at schools. ......... 13
6. Briefly discuss the roles of School Management Team (also known as School Management
Committee) with suitable examples from primary schools. ................................................................... 13
7. The concept “School Governing Body” should be conceived as the legally required board of lay and
professional people elected to govern a school or a college (Oldroyd, Elsner & Poster, 1996: 27). ...... 14
Discuss this statement under the following sub-headings:..................................................................... 14
7.1 Components/members of School Governing Body (SGB) of public primary schools. (5) ............. 14
7.2 Terms of office for SGB members and its office bearers. (2) ......... 14
7.3 Roles and functions of SGB according to South African Schools Act (10) ............................ 14
7.4 Policies to be developed by the SGB of a public school. (3) .......... 15
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8. Tabulate the differences between School governance and school management under the following
headings: .................................................................................................................................................. 15
9. List five examples of management committees in the Foundation Phase and explain the
major role of each. (10) ............ 16
LEARNING UNIT 2 ......................................................................................................................................... 17
1. Define the following concepts: ............................................................................................................ 17
1.1 Curriculum (2) ............................... 17
1.2 Reflective teaching (2) ............................. 17
1.3 Multi-grade classes (2) ............................. 17
1.4 Africanisation (2) .............................. 17
1.5 Learning (2) ............................... 17
2. Critically discuss: the Scientific Management School, The Classical Organisational School and The
Behavoural school theories citing their scholars and what they believe in with reference to school
management. (20) .......................................................................... 17
Management theories ......................................................................................................................... 17
Scientific Management School ............................................................................................................ 18
Classical Organisational Theory School ............................................................................................... 18
Behavioural School .............................................................................................................................. 20
3. Briefly discuss the following models of school management classified by the scholar Bush (2011):. 21
Formal model ....................................................................................................................................... 21
Collegial model .................................................................................................................................... 21
Political model ..................................................................................................................................... 21
Subjective model ................................................................................................................................. 21
Cultural model ..................................................................................................................................... 22
4. “Managers require four main kinds of skills, namely: technical, human. Conceptual and design”
Critically discuss this statement with suitable examples of skills under each category.
(10) ........................................................................................................................................................... 22
5. You are a novice teacher in a primary school with Foundation Phase grades. Develop two checklist
questions to enhance and enable a positive teaching and learning environment under each of the
following headings: .................................................................................................................................. 23
Physical environment (2) ............................. 23
Affective environment (2) ............................ 23
Cognitive environment (2)............................. 23
Behavioral environment (2) ............................. 23
Supporting environment (2) ............................. 23
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