Diversity and Leadership Roles Diversity typically plays a major role in leadership and administrative issues in a school setting. Many schools have a widely diverse student body, faculty, and administration, and diversity issues involving gender, e Continue Reading...
Ethics Leadership Analysis One of the biggest advantages of globalization is that many different companies are able to receive cheap labor to produce a wide variety of products that are sold at numerous retail stores in the United States. However, a Continue Reading...
Montessori is an educational approach that was created by the doctor and pedagogue, Maria Montessori. The basic pillars of a Montessori education revolve around the ideas of the necessity of independence, freedom within certain limits, and an overall Continue Reading...
The model that emerged from the study proposes that there is a relationship of life mission with transformational learning and self-directed learning. Adult educators may improve their learning process when they provide some way for learners to unde Continue Reading...
Teaching Philosophy and Educating Students Traditionally, the focus of education has been the primary "3Rs" -- writing, reading, and arithmetic. But with ever-growing technological innovation driving universal change, educators need to reconsider wh Continue Reading...
Catholic School's are ministries of the Catholic Community that exist to provide education rooted in the Catholic faith and Christian values. Such schools are developed to offer assistance to families regarding the intellectual, spiritual, and physic Continue Reading...
Vygotsky and Mission Statement One of the keys to a successful pedagogical experience is the ability to translate new materials into the minds of the learner. We have certainly come a long way from the days in which we thought every student should s Continue Reading...
K-12 Curriculum and Instruction: Changing Paradigms in the 21st Century This is not your grandfathers' economy or his educational paradigm however; today's curriculum still appears as such and therein lays a very significant and challenging problem Continue Reading...
High School Dual Programs Current social, political, and cultural concerns have hastened the call for high school reform and have intensified an interest in producing high school graduates that are college ready (Kuo, 2010). Competition from up-and- Continue Reading...
The fast pace of technological change, advancements in campus policies and even a varying demographic makeup of revolving student bodies make for a considerable and interesting challenge to the leaders in the environment. It requires Barqeuo and his Continue Reading...
Social Work Leadership Theories and Areas of Application Leadership Theories - Servant The philosophy and collection of practices constituting the 'servant leadership' style enrich people's lives, improve organizations and, eventually, foster a kin Continue Reading...
Spiritual leadership has become a very contentious and often combative topic in society. For one, the concept of spiritual leadership has often misunderstood by the public at large. Here, many casual observers perceive spiritual leadership as akin to Continue Reading...
Organizational Leadership and Team Development Organizational Leadership & Inter-professional Team Development In a contemporary healthcare environments, application of a quality healthcare is a complex system because it encompasses unique regu Continue Reading...
This brings us to the idea of ideal femininity. What is the ideal woman? What should we expect of the female gender in the new millennium? When comparing the two views above, I would say that Chan's ideal of the woman as one who is worthy of recogn Continue Reading...
The importance of the workplace in mental, emotional, physical, social and economic welfare of employees cannot be under estimated. Research shows a correlation between the health of the workplace, the well-being of the personnel, and the health of Continue Reading...
Social Justice Improving social justice for women has been identified as one of the building blocks of social change. Population control, education, and the eradication of domestic violence are all interlinked. "UNICEF estimates that worldwide, some Continue Reading...
Community policing is a philosophy that endorses organizational strategies, which support the orderly use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as c Continue Reading...
shared vision allows for the fulfillment of common goals. Therefore, the first step in creating and maintaining a successful charter school will be to plan the vision with a common goals meeting and invite all stakeholders to the meeting in accordan Continue Reading...
Organizational Role as a Nurse Leader A nurse leader is an individual engaged in direct patient care and who regularly enhances the care given to patients through influencing the treatment provision delivered by others. This implies that leadership Continue Reading...
classical era, the ideal for higher education was to create a well-rounded individual. A complete education required in-depth knowledge of classical poetry, mathematics, and philosophy. Today, education is more specialized and more technical. It is Continue Reading...
Stock Leader Does Having a New Black President Make it Easier for Minorities to Advance to Leadership Roles in Business? "Excuse me, sir. I'm looking for the Color Line. Would you know where I can find it?" (Miller) The United States has made gr Continue Reading...
The four categories derived from the questionnaire are: Shared decision-making, Leadership and Safety, Well-being, and Professional development. The selected administration theories are: Innovation leadership, Transformational leadership, and Strateg Continue Reading...
Ataturk's Influence On The New Turkish Republic And Village Institutes Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, or "Father Turk," is credited with being the father of the modern nation of Turkey. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Turkey did not exist as we k Continue Reading...
Leading and Managing Professional Development Through an Inquiry-Oriented Professional Learning Communities Today, reading ability is widely recognized as being a critical part of the skill set needed to succeed academically and professionally, and Continue Reading...
Effective Approaches in Leadership and Management Nursing turnover is one of the most important issues facing the health care industry today. Turnover rates increase costs for health care facilities and decrease the quality of care for patients, as n Continue Reading...
Parable of the sadhu teaches us the importance of a group's commitment to the welfare of an individual. In corporate ethics, this would mean the support of the entire organization for the welfare and career/personal growth of an employee. In the sens Continue Reading...
staff and the supervision of higher education staff members? It is the primary assumption regarding the staff as well as the supervision of higher education staff members that they should influence the people around them in such a manner that they Continue Reading...
Conclusion While planning for educational improvement may be a lengthy process, this does not need to be overly complicated. Leaders particularly need to recognize the value of collaboration in strategic planning. Indeed, many authors hold that st Continue Reading...
The principal's role in creating a vision for the school begins with creating readiness among staff and this can only be accomplished through clearly articulating the vision to school staff and this may take time in order that they really comprehend Continue Reading...
Indeed, the heightened emphasis on standardized testing and other practices related to No Child Left Behind has created a condition wherein the principal is found to be largely at the center of an array of very inflexible demands. The result is that Continue Reading...
Some additional common characteristics of and criteria for selecting mentor teachers are: a clearly articulated vision of teaching and learning, knowledge of content, accomplished curriculum developer, professional interests, expressed educational p Continue Reading...
Interview and Leadership PhilosophySection OneIntroductionThe school district is a title 1 school district in a low socio-economic neighborhood. The demographics consist of 68% African-American, 22% White, 10% Hispanic. The school district has stated Continue Reading...
When they see the library staff in this light, teachers are more willing to work with others in improving the effectiveness of their lesson planning (by incorporating more tools and techniques). (Gregory, 2003, pp. 100-109) Task 4: Change can be di Continue Reading...
That responsibility is of the school -- to ensure that the adult citizens so needed by contemporary society are produced by the school system -- those individuals being responsible for their views and able to analyze and synergize information so the Continue Reading...
Case Study: Professional Interview Analysis The individual interviewed for this case study is a 7th grade teacher of history and literature in a public school. He is named Terry X for the purposes of anonymity. He has been a teacher for 5 years. The Continue Reading...
Plan for Shared Learning The goal of this shared learning plan is to create a culture of continual learning and sustainable, supportive professional development. A professional learning community “provides a context of collegiality, which suppo Continue Reading...
Adult and Organizational LearningSummaryThis paper describes the importance of leaders adopting an andragogical approach to the education of workers to facilitate organizational learning and organizational transformation. It also discusses the role t Continue Reading...
Multicultural education researchers and educators agree that preservice teachers' attitudes, beliefs, and understandings are important: foci in multicultural education coursework (Cochran-Smith, 1995; Grant & Secada, 1990; McDiarmid & Price Continue Reading...
