A case Study on Strategies of School Development for a Private High School

• Main Authors: Peng-Ning Huang, 黃鵬寧
• Other Authors: Ming-Ching Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67040794818141624509

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士在職專班 === 101 === The purpose of this study was to explore the strategy of school management for a private high school which had been developing steadily during the past years. Four dimensions of school management was framed for data collection and analysis, including “administrative leadership of school”, “teacher’s professional development”, “planning for campus environment” and “school public relations”. A semi-structured interview was conducted in addition to an analysis of school documents. Three administrators and three teachers of the case school were purposively selected as subjects of the interview. Findings of this study were summarized as follows: 1. The school leader and members of the administrative team share common visions and strongly commit to school development. 2. The school as a whole understands its advantages and disadvantages for decision-making on strategies of school management and development. 3. The school strengthens ways of communication and puts oneself in one''s shoes. 4. The school has thorough policies to support activities of teachers professional development. 5. Parents, teachers and students of the school all take parts in, as well as being cohesive for school development. 6. The core value of this school for school management and development is student learning, and efforts of this school all direct to the support of successive learning for every student. 7. The Case School replacing natural reputation marketing, remarkable results. Based on research findings, several recommendations were made for educational administrative authority, schools, as well as further researchers.