Introduction An Educational leader has an awesome responsibility. There are many challenges as well as opportunities to address. Critical to being successful is the ethical compass which guides your decision making. Every decision should be made for the common good.…
Student learning is more data driven and administrators have more workloads and responsibilities. The article addressed the problem with school leaders managing funding and policy changes. The need for shared leadership among teachers and staff is increasing do to the lack of time allowed for the administration to focus solely on data driven learning. Allowing collaboration among colleagues such as PLCs, RTI, and classroom teachers using administrative directed protocol can promote an acceptance of changes because all parties have the opportunity to analyze the data and discuss where the need for change is necessary.…
“Before making any decision or attempting to bring about any change, effective principals ask themselves one central question: ‘What will my best teachers think” (Whitaker, 2009)? As part of the decision-making process, great principals should ask themselves: What is the purpose of this, will this actually accomplish the purpose, and how will the most positive and productive people feel about this? Making teachers feel a part of the decision-making process is very beneficial and very important. When principals discuss their ideas with staff members, they become more accepting toward the implementation of change (Whitaker, 2009). Effective principals have the confidence to seek input in advance from staff members and feedback after implementation.…
Peer Pressure: Peer pressure effects on individual decision making. Therefore, it influenced the jurors to think for themselves. For example, juror number two was easily swayed by opinions of others. He had no confidence in himself and his own beliefs.…
As I move forward in my career as an educational leader, my aspiration is to emulate the characteristics of a successful leader. Success in education can be measured every day in every school when the beliefs of the leader are reflected in the students and the staff. I aspire to be an innovative leader that motivates people to be courageous and open-minded to tackle the hard tasks. Furthermore, I hope to be a transformative leader that becomes a role-model to their peers by doing rather than saying. I will become this leader by being consistent with my communication skills, making responsible decisions that display my integrity and always keeping in mind that student achievement is my number one purpose.…
1. What insights have I gained about my role as an educational leader from these chapters? As an educational leader you need to realize that racism and negative behaviors can happen intentionally or unintentionally. Although we may not realize that it may offend a certain group of individuals it should be brought to the attention of the one who spoke the crime.…
Decisions making are not always as hard as we think. According to the question that why decision making is difficult, the first reason is that after reading the article “Growing Less Dumb” by Eileen Brenoff, the most people don’t get chance for decision making in their school days by their parents or teachers because of that when they become old they still wait for the backup support from seniors. Second of all, I think decision making is difficult because we make it difficult by not knowing of the importance of tasks. Moreover, it is better to think about the particular decision before the deadline. Thirdly, in my opinion, people don’t believe in the God and they don’t think that someone is running the universal system.…
The principal executed a unique leadership style that incorporated various theoretical applications. One such style observed during school leadership team meetings was the distributive style of leadership. The distributed leadership model, "does not necessarily imply that the entire faculty controls decisions related to the school. Rather, principals create leadership positions that allow capable and willing teachers to work in a more focused leadership capacity" (Giouroukakis & Natsiopoulou, 2010). During school leadership team meetings, the principal included teacher-leaders as part of the decision making team to collaborate and provide input on key decisions that impact student learning.…
An educational leader needs to be knowledgeable, as well as innovative, to frequent reform as additional challenges and issues arise within the field. In the end, promoting the success of each student is our job and responsibility and entails helping them grow into individuals that not only think critically, but are of outstanding…
The chosen group at my institution consists of instructors. As an instructor, there are times that a decision must be made on the spot; thus, it is important to rely that decision to top management prior to their knowledge. Decisions concerning students’ behavior cannot always be addressed in the presence of the supervisor; consequently, it is left up to the instructor to provide a solution and then rely what took place to the supervisor. Most of the time the supervisor will let the decision made by the instructor stand; subsequently, there are times the supervisor will add to the decision of the instructor. Intellectual Humility vs Intellectual Arrogance Similarities…
To reflect on the many theories, strategies, and planning processes discussed throughout this course, one section particularly stood out to me. The 21 responsibilities of the school leader presented in the Marzano book provided some insights into frequently occurring responsibilities of the school leader. As stated in the book, the “wide array of behaviors explains why it is so difficult to be an effective school leader. (Marzano , Waters, & McNulty, 2005, pg. 41).…
The decision making processes in educational institutions can be quite complex with the outcomes affecting several stakeholders. Tarter and Hoy (1998) analyzed six decision-making models in an attempt to determine which model was most effective: classical, administrative, incremental, mixed scanning, garbage-can, and political. The classical model is described by Tarter and Hoy as being an “optimizing” model, one that is straightforward: “there is one best solution to a problem; find it, select it and implement it” (p. 212). They define the administrative model as a modified version of the “optimizing” or classical model. Simon first identified this model in the 1930s as a result of finding that managers would often make decisions that were reasonable, but not ideal; in other words, the decision satisfied the situation but hardly maximized it (Brown, 2004).…
Group Decision Making Sound decision making is an integral part of the overall success of any organization. While the leader of the organization has the final say in the overall decision making process, group decision making can generate a more complete solution to a problem by aggregating the resources of several individuals. This offers increased diversity of ideas and opens the door for more potential solutions to a problem to be considered, thereby leading to a greater sense of acceptance of the chosen solution by members of the organization (Robbins & Judge, 2009). While group decision making can lead to more favorable outcomes, it is not a perfect process.…
Decision making is is the process of making choices by setting goals, gathering information, and assessing alternative occupations (umassd.edu 2016). The three types of decision making are impulsive, rational, and dependent decisions. Everybody has and will encounter situations that will require them to make one of these types of decisions Rational decisions are a multi-step process for making choices between alternatives (boundless.com 2016). To make rational decisions, it requires for a person to think about the pros and cons of each alternative choice, before they make it.…
During this semester I was able to experience many accomplishments, all of them have helped me to gain a better understanding of what kind of leader I aspire to be. In developing my personal philosophy of educational leadership I was able to focus on what qualities I already posses to be a successful leader. I desire to be a leader that creates a positive climate and a supportive culture, one who inspires others to be great and require greatness for the students that they teach, and promoting all to become lifelong learners.. Being able to shadow my administrator in many different aspects of her profession really opened my eyes to all that is required of educational leaders and the effort that it takes to ensure that you are always working…