This points to the relevance of the principal's role as an organizational leader with responsibilities to orienting with enthusiasm and effectiveness a staff of qualified and capable individuals. Especially in the inclusion context, where staff memb Continue Reading...
This points us toward the concept of distributed leadership, which is increasingly cited as a mode to effective principalship. In many ways, the emergence of distributed leadership represents a paradigm shift in the way that school improvements are Continue Reading...
Leadership Styles Among Male and Female Principal It is the intention of this research to study the leadership and cognitive styles of teachers and instructors of both genders within the educational system and their preference for types of leadershi Continue Reading...
Leadership My organization is Miami-Dade Transit, for which I am a bus operator. The Transit system is an independent operating entity within the government of Miami-Dade County. Leadership of this company is typically appointed, and this was the ca Continue Reading...
Hence, a more corporate attitude is being embraced by pro-vice-chancellors, but the salient question in this article is this: will a university be better off with corporate-style, bureaucratic leadership, or with leadership that pursues academic exc Continue Reading...
Leadership Philosophy Thank you for your consideration of my application to Woodbury University. I understand and respect the value of receiving instruction and inspiration from professors and instructors in the field of organizational leadership, a Continue Reading...
While the superintendent may feel or even firmly believe that they have covered all of the bases on expenditures and other relevant issues in school budgeting, the failure to connect to other stakeholders throughout the district, who may or may not Continue Reading...
Those administrators that are able to provide educators with this will more than likely have favorable opinions of the current strategy (from the staff and the public). While those administrators that are unable to achieve this objective, will more Continue Reading...
This study was similar to the third study in that both involved a retrospective review of data based on prior studies and program data. This study differed from the third study in that the prior study involved only a review of published literature, Continue Reading...
..concerns exist that (a) time will be taken away from the development of functional or vocational skills, (b) referral rates will increase, - students will be exempted or omitted from the accountability system" (Defur, 2002). These are some of aspec Continue Reading...
More specifically, Charlie must announce that his administration will neither reward nor tolerate the "CYA" approach to collaboration in which the principal focus of each business unit head is to make sure that any blame or responsibility is automat Continue Reading...
The Teacher and Principal Relationship with the Principal as Leader Research indicate that the primary role of the principal is that of the school "leader." The decision a principal makes concerning the issue of instructional leadership and the exte Continue Reading...
3). This approach appears to be similar to "management by walking around" in the business world, but it appears to provide some profound results in educational settings. The principal in question was able to begin helping teachers identify activiti Continue Reading...
Principals must be aware that teachers at times are and may feel isolated; that they need to know what teachers are regularly doing in their classrooms. Teachers and principals both need to be regularly sustained with quality conversation of a perso Continue Reading...
Brandt (2003) offers ten ways to determine if a school indeed meets the criteria of a learning organization. The first characteristic of a learning organization is that it encourages adaptive behavior in response to differing circumstances. The seco Continue Reading...
K-12 Leadership in Urban School Settings Define "urban education." The school's four themes: accountability, diversity, leadership, and learning. In order to extend education and train nearly 50 million students to become useful elements of our soc Continue Reading...
Human relations are vital. Teachers must trust each other, there must be norms that support productive criticism, and there must be techniques in place for combining and resolving disputes. Arrangements need to be in place that generates discussion Continue Reading...
This single entity can also more consistently value the differences of both the students and teachers in a meaningful, useful way. "Good leaders seek to bring together sets of different realities to form a holistic identity for the organization" (Wa Continue Reading...
Leadership Skills Impact International Education CHALLENGES OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION Practical Circumstances of International schools THE IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATION What is Effective Leadership for Today's Schools? Challenges of In Continue Reading...
Introduction This paper is mainly a narrative report of the model whereby we evaluate and contrast the evaluation instruction and also review the principals’ function in endorsing efficient schooling by concentrating on two elements: leadershi Continue Reading...
Special Education Diverse Learners Project Guidelines Section 1: Abstract This paper provides an overview of Butler College Prep, its demographics, and its programs and services for special needs students. It looks at curriculum and instruction effor Continue Reading...
Leadership Development Plan It is imperative for an effective leader to have a plan in order to succeed. This takes into account a personal plan intended for growth and a professional one intended for improvement. The purpose of this paper is to hig Continue Reading...
Educational Leadership Comprehensive Exam - Educational Leadership Theoretical and conceptual knowledge There is increasing interest in educational leadership in this current century. This can be attributed to the belief that making differences in Continue Reading...
There should also be appropriate systems for conflict management, since two or more principals at the same level of management may experience occasional differences of opinion that should be handled appropriately for the most effective management of Continue Reading...
This is because these people forgot or did not understand the core principals of all great leaders to include: having a sense of responsibility, self-discipline and charisma. These elements are important because the staff will often look to the lead Continue Reading...
Personal Leadership Platform Henry Fayol, Mary Parker among other scholars in the field of management have described leadership as the act of getting thing done through others, this definition is consistent with the definition given by Carter et al. Continue Reading...
Influence is important in transactional leadership, not pure dictatorship. Still, deciding upon a new mode of curriculum instruction to improve scores on a school wide basis would best be served by soliciting input from a number of sources in the t Continue Reading...
II. Literature Review The work entitled "Choosing a Direction for Leadership: The Principal as the Instructional Leader" states that many "forms of instructional leadership" exists which requires "a variety of adjectives" in description including Continue Reading...
More importantly, our appreciative and participatory stance with our co-researchers has allowed us to witness and learn about the cutting edge of leadership work in such a way that is and feels qualitatively different from other research traditions Continue Reading...
Leadership Theory Handbook for College ProfessorsINTRODUCTIONThis is a guidebook on the leadership of learning and teaching for college lecturers. Specialist skills are required in the area to embrace the emerging teaching and learning methodologies. Continue Reading...
Curriculum and Instructional Leadership: A commitment to life-long and self-directed learning is essential for effective learning-centered curriculum and instructional leaders. These leaders need to have a deeper understanding of the way students le Continue Reading...
As Hill (1996) sees it, the differnce between instructional leadership of the previous decade and instructional leadership of the present and the future is that leadership of the past focuses on teaching and learning, whereas leadership of the pres Continue Reading...
To include: the study of mathematics, science, English, geography, second languages, history, reading comprehension, writing and vocabulary. To achieve these different objectives, administrators will work hand in hand with educators to create lesson Continue Reading...
In 1997, numerous key educational institutions including the AASA (American Association of School Administrators); ASCD (the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), NAESP (the National Association of Elementary School Principals), Continue Reading...
The second meta-analysis revealed strong average effects for the leadership dimension involving promoting and participating in teacher learning and development and moderate effects for the dimensions concerned with goal setting and planning, coordin Continue Reading...
4) Relying soley on anecdotal evidence and/or district wide standards for evaluation, that may not be based upon classroom use, but is rather based on novice understandings of educational needs is an error that must be eliminated from the school. Sc Continue Reading...
Furthermore, when groups began people naturally turned to the group leader for direction and advice. It would be accurate to state that most of the relating was to the group leader at that point. However, by exercising linking behavior, I was able Continue Reading...
Both of these measures are expected to improve school performance (Pohlman 2010; Seyfarth 1995). Philosophy of Curriculum Development Though each individual classroom and instructor operates on a largely independent basis, the philosophy and pract Continue Reading...
According to Copland (2001), although the following job description is a parody, it is not too far from the truth concerning the current set of responsibilities that confront the nation's elementary school principals: Position Opening: Elementary S Continue Reading...
Letter From the Principal Why Andrew is best suited to Receive the Award For the reasons I highlight in this text, Andrew has my full backing as recipient of the award. This particular candidate has over time demonstrated that he has the ability to Continue Reading...
