ETL504 Reading Quality Management

Found these two readings:

Quality Management in Education by Myron Tibus and

The 12 quality prinicples fron Streeton Primary School

to be most enlightening.

Have commented on the former on forums but further comments on the latter are warranted.

A PD was held amongst staff at my school and we discussed the Strategic Plan for 2012. My group raised principle 3 - that quality and value are defined by the client - we thought that we should be outreaching more to our community in general to culitvate their interest in us.



This raised private thoughts for me re the role of the library and a TL. There is a library here but no TL and I have commented before on the difficulties this raises for this school.



The Streeton principles reinforced my sense of how important the library and the TL's role in the school would be with respect to reaching out to the community. The dynamics of a library can attract community interest as it is there for all not just individual year levels. It should be the hub of team work and the meeting place of all with like minded thoughts and the place where we embrace the unlike minded thoughts to join us!



Found much food for thought in this reading particularly impressed by the fact that it comes from a primary school.