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This course will explore the practices and philosophies of effective strategic leaders and guide you in applying these techniques into your own practice.
We will study how school leaders work strategically to develop organisations that are driven towards a clear shared vision, with motivated staff, engaged students, and a supportive school community. You will be encouraged to study leadership in your own workplace and find out how leadership impacts on learning.
You will reflect on your own leadership strengths and opportunities and develop a 21 day plan for personal leadership growth.
This course is aimed at school teachers in leadership roles who are looking to advance their career as a:
- head teacher
- assistant or deputy principal
- principal
- organisational leader
- or in educational policy or advisory roles.
This course certificate offers 12 hours of high-quality professional development for current and aspiring leaders. It may be used by participants to apply in their school systems for professional learning credit.
- Analyse and critique strategic leadership practices and philosophies of current and former organisational leaders
- Apply and assess strategic leadership insights in your professional practice.
- Identify processes and practices to further develop personal leadership capacity by incorporating knowledge from leaders studied in the course.
Prerequisite
A minimum two years leadership experience in schools (team leader, department head, head teacher, lead teacher, deputy principal or principal) or equivalent in other related industries is preferable but not necessary.
Syllabus
Week 1
- Understanding the behaviours of effective leaders.
- A review of ‘Bringing the Good Weather’
Week 2
- Analysing observations from educational organisation leaders along the ‘Bringing the Good Weather’ capacities
Week 3
- Applying research on leadership
- Using the ‘Bringing the Good Weather' framework to conduct field work
- Interviews with organisation leaders to gain insights in areas of needed growth
Week 4
- Developing your plan for capacity building. Synthesising insights from interviews into a 21-day action plan for your own leadership development.
Instructors
Professor John Fischetti
Pro Vice-Chancellor (College of Human and Social Futures)
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr Scott Imig
Associate Professor, School of Education
The University of Newcastle, Australia
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