Smart Schools will need teaching-learning materials designed for the new teaching strategies. The primary objective of Smart
School management will be to manage efficiently and effectively there sources and processes required to support the teaching-
learning functions. Management will help there allocate skilled human resources to more valuable activities, save costs over the
long term, improve the quality of decisions through better access to information, and accelerate decision making. Smart School is
not just about ICT intervention in teaching and learning. The curriculum and pedagogy are given the highest importance, with the
role of teachers, administrators, parents and the community enhanced in the education of the students. Individuality, creativity
and initiative amongst the students are prioritized. Managing Smart School successfully will be a complex task, requiring
changes to existing policies, procedures, and practices, both written and unwritten. It may also require formulating entirely new
policies and regulations. This article focuses mainly on describing the functional elements needed to manage smart schools. The
method employed for this research is based on library, documents, sites and E-magazines.
© 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Keywords: Smart school,ICT, management system;
1. Introduction
In order to implement the unique educational innovation successfully, the Smart Schools must be able to address
some relevant issues related to personnel, skills, technology, processes, policies, management and administration(Jin
and Huang,200). School Administrators are often called upon to make decisions that weight heavily on the
mid/long-term development of various aspects of schools and education. The correct choice and implementation of
new technologies allows more satisfactory qualitative and developmental results to be reached in line with the
investment made. The Smart School applications brings the benefit of technology to the educators and
administrators. These also allow the young to get familiar with the ICT world – using tools such as personal
computers, scanners, printers, multimedia products, TV/videos, etc.(Ministry of Education Malaysia,1998). ICTs
provide a means for overcoming historically intractable problems of isolation and lack of access to information and
knowledge, crucial impediments to educational development. ICTs have reshaped the educational landscape by
transforming the content and modes of delivery/acquisition of learning as well as how the educational institutes
operate (Tella,2002). ICT changes teaching and learning through its potential as a source of knowledge, a medium
to transmit content, a means of interaction and dialogue. Thus, ICT is both a cause of change and a means of
achieving it (NCCA, 2004). However, ICT is critical in making the teaching and learning processes easier, more fun
and effective, as well as making communication and management among the stakeholders more efficient. Principals
* S.ladan@yahoo.com
© 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Prof. Hüseyin Uzunboylu.
đang được dịch, vui lòng đợi..
