Running head: MANAGEMENT IN YOUR PROFESSION

Joel Valdez
The importance of management in your profession
University of Belize

MANAGEMENT IN YOUR PROFESSION

The importance of management in your profession

Teachers play a pivotal role as front liners in every education system. For a teacher to
grow effectively, efficiently, and flourish the teacher needs to follow basic, yet powerful skill to
achieve success of his or her classroom. If these management skills are not taken seriously
enough the end result will quickly become failure for the teacher and students. According to
Richard (2010), Management is the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and
efficient manner through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling organizational resources
(p. 632). There are three key control techniques that teachers should adhere for achievements,
these are; Technical skills, Human skills, Conceptual skills. Then there are specific functions that
are crucial for teachers achievements to happen and these include; Planning, Organizing, leading
and Controlling. Without these skills or abilities teachers will find it near difficult to be effective
but through the execution of these skills they will experience growth and prosperous times in
their classroom and for their students.
According to Mintzberg, these roles, or expectations for a managers behavior, fall into
three categories: informational (managing by information), interpersonal (managing through
people), and decisional (managing through action). I consider myself to be a figureheads that
students can look at. They need to show students confidence and cultivate humility and empathy.
As a figure head teachers should learn how to set a good example at work, and think about how
to be a good role model. We need to be in constant monitoring of our class. This will help to
improve, learn how to gather information and lastly for me to be a good disseminator we need to
know how to share information and outside views effectively, which means that good
communication skills are vital.

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The teacher is a manger. The organization he or she manages is a group of students from
diverse backgrounds and with differing skills and abilities. Some are already willing learners,
while others have to be awake to the excitement and satisfactions of learning. A teacher's role is
to lead his or her class to clearly stated short term goals or even long term goals. In order to do
this the teacher must use all his or her resources in an organized attempt to achieve those goals.
This will require the teacher to lead, plan, organize, and control the students.
One of the function that a teacher should use is technical skills. Boone and Kurtz (2005)
states that technical skills are when the manager of the small business has the capability to
recognize and use the knowledge, techniques, tools and equipment for the explicit tasks of the
small business in question. Human skills are the interpersonal skills management that teachers
need to enable their students to work effectively and efficiently. It is vital for a teacher to have
human skills because of the different needs of students, this can be seen through the use of
communicating effectively to their students through the use of students to teacher, email, mobile
phones, and or Facebook. Another functions is planning. When teachers plan effectively and
efficiently they can help the students to cement their ideas and to minimize and avoid expensive
mistakes and pick up on great and beneficial opportunities while working. Another function that
is significantly important to the success of a teacher is organizing. Organizing is when a teacher
mix human and material resources together through a formal structure of tasks and authority.
Organizing help sort and separate work into manageable units by determining specific
responsibilities necessary to complete the classroom objectives and it's vital for planning for
students to perform the tasks.
Another function that teachers need is directing, which is the motivation of the students
by teacher accomplish managerial objectives. The tasks involved for the manager is to explain

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procedures, issue orders and oversee all mistakes until they have been corrected (Ebert & Griffin,
2007). Directing comes from having management features of being able to encourage all
students into following guidelines as well as giving them adequate opportunity to achieve the
goals and objectives that have been set. The last managerial function that a teacher should
effectively use is of controlling his or her classroom performance so to determine whether
objectives are accomplishing. The purpose that a teacher uses controlling is to assess the success
of the planning function at the end of all projects no matter the size, the controlling skill allows
for feedback form learners for preparing for the next lesson or future purposes.
To conclude, I must say that it is imperative for teachers to have the fundamentals of
management skill to succeed in the long term within their class, as a whole at school and in
society. Without the use of these vastly important skills a school or classroom will suffer
detrimentally through the loss of income and management of classroom. These skills that
teachers need to implement include; Technical skills, Human skills, Conceptual skills, Planning,
Organizing, Directing and Controlling. Effective teaching will take place when a positive
learning environment has been created. Ideal, a skilled teacher should be able to move in and out
of each role with ease, but it is more likely for teachers to gravitate naturally toward one or two
of the three areas managerial roles. Understanding each of the types of management roles is
helpful in recognizing nuances in leadership skills. Of course this depends on a good bond
between the students and the teacher which can be built with a proper management of the first
day of class.

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Reference
Boone, L.E., & Kurtz D.L. (2005) Contemporary Business (11th ed.). Thomson& South-Western,
United States.
Ebert, R.J., & Griffin, R. W. (2007) Business Essentials (6th ed.). Pearson- Prentice Hall, New
Jersey
Richard, L. D. (2010). Management (9th ed.). Soth-Western, Cengage Learning