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Developing Your Educational Leadership and Management Vision
- 4 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
- Starts on September 13, 2022
- Ends on October 18, 2022
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1:Understanding leadership
- Leadership styles and frameworks
- Evaluatingleadership strengths and opportunities
Week 2:What works in school leadership
- Defining an effective educational leader
- Strategic management theory and practice
Week 3: Future trends in leadership
- Current research in leadership
- Growing your leadership capacity
Week 4: ‘Bringing the Good Weather’
- ‘Bringing the Good Weather’ framework for leadership
- Developing apersonal leadership philosophy and vision
Prerequisite
A minimum two years of 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.
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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