Head Teachers as School Leaders

Explore the dynamic role of schools in today’s evolving educational landscape. Discover how socio-economic shifts, leadership strategies, and effective management can transform schools into thriving learning environments. Learn about the significance of communication, conflict resolution, and decision-making in fostering a collaborative and effective school culture. Delve into the characteristics of successful schools and the ethical values that guide educational leaders. This comprehensive guide equips educators and leaders with the insights needed to navigate and influence the future of education.

Head Teachers as School Leaders

1 Emerging Role of the School in the Changing Context of Education

  1. The Context of the Present-Day School
  2. Socio-Economic Factors Impacting the Schools
  3. Is the Current System of Education Effective?
  4. The Future of Schooling – Some Possibilities
  5. Imperatives of a Plan of Change in Schools
  6. Leadership and Change

2 Educational Management -Nature, Scope and Significance

  1. The Nature of Educational Management
  2. The School as an Organisation
  3. The Scope of Educational Management
  4. Management of Self
  5. Management of Teams
  6. Management of the School
  7. Functional Areas of Educational Management

3 Demands on Head Teachers as School Leaders

  1. Perceptions of People about Leaders
  2. Misconception about Leadership
  3. Leadership Defined
  4. Assumptions about Leadership
  5. Personal Level
  6. Interpersonal Level
  7. Managerial Level
  8. Organisational Level

4 Roles, Functions and Responsibilities of a School Leader

  1. The Evolving Role of a School Leader
  2. Providing Instructional Leadership
  3. Transformational Leadership
  4. Developing a Collaborative Leadership Structure
  5. Building Collaborative Teams for School Culture and Values
  6. Leadership for Responding to Challenges

5 Delegation of Responsibilities

  1. What is Delegation?
  2. Importance of Delegation
  3. Understanding the Staff
  4. Principles of Delegation
  5. Barriers to Effective Delegation
  6. Development of Systems in the School
  7. What Cannot be Delegated?
  8. Effective Delegator

6 Communication and Negotiation

  1. What is Communication?
  2. Communication Process
  3. Types of Communication
  4. Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Communication
  5. Essentials of Effective Communication
  6. Communication and Negotiation

7 Managing Meetings

  1. Attitudes to Meetings
  2. Is a Meeting Needed?
  3. Classification of Meetings
  4. Appropriate Formats
  5. Preparing for the Meeting
  6. Special Terms for Meetings

8 Managing Conflict

  1. What is Conflict?
  2. Intra-personal Conflict
  3. Inter-personal Conflict
  4. Benefits of Conflicts
  5. Detriments of Conflicts
  6. Approaches to Conflict Resolution
  7. Effective Skills to Manage Conflicts

9 Decision-making and Problem-solving

  1. Clarifying Problem-solving and Decision-making
  2. Approaches to Problem-solving
  3. Need and Significance of Problem-solving and Decision-making
  4. Decision-making Process
  5. Types of Decisions
  6. Decision-making Styles
  7. Attributes of an Effective Decision-maker
  8. Problem-solving Model

10 The Learning Organisation (Vision, Mission and Objectives)

  1. The Learning Organisation
  2. Components of a Learning Organisation
  3. Leading the Learning Organisation
  4. Issues and Problems

11 Characteristics of an Effective School

  1. What Makes An Effective School?
  2. A School’s Context and Culture
  3. Resources
  4. Indicators of Effective Schools
  5. Correlates for an Effective School
  6. Clear School Mission
  7. High Expectations for Success
  8. Instructional Leadership
  9. Frequent Monitoring of Student Progress
  10. Opportunity to Learn and Student Time on Task
  11. Safe and Orderly Environment
  12. Home-School Relations

12 Professional Values and Ethics

  1. Issues of Ethical Practice
  2. Education as an Ethical Practice
  3. What Moral Dilemmas Concern Teachers?
  4. Helping Teachers with their Ethical Decisions – The Role of the Head-Teacher
  5. Code of Conduct for the Head-Teacher