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Show School chief calls for effective management i State Superintendent of Public Pu-blic Instruction Walter D. Talbot Tal-bot called for more effective management in education while speaking at a conference confer-ence held in Cedar City last week. He told elementary school principals at the Principal's Prin-cipal's Workshop at Southern Utah State College, to strive for "excellence, a new breed of school administrators, and a whole set of management tools which have, heretofore, been foreign to education, but in broad use by private institutions." insti-tutions." Dr. Talbot defines management manage-ment as "getting things done through other people." He said managment sets objectives, provides structure and is responsible re-sponsible for the "goals and directions of the agency." In explaining the difference differ-ence 'between administration and management Dr. Talbot told the conference that administration ad-ministration must carry out management's decisions. It Is my contention that school principals," the state school superintendent said, "must more and more assume the role of management and divorce di-vorce themselves from pure administration." He said if principals arc always administering admin-istering they never have time to devise better means of doing do-ing a job. Dr. Talbot listed among; the requirements for the "new breed of administrator" the ability to know the child's strengths and weaknesses, and aid him in achieving success suc-cess in the school environment. environ-ment. He further stated the school leaders should see that education educa-tion is "conducted in harmony with democratic prinicples to which the people subscribe." School leaders should also un-derstand un-derstand that leadership is in the individual, not in the official of-ficial position and to have concern for the individual. |