Educational Leadership Model

The educational leadership and management are interrelated and both need to be given equal prominence to achieve the aims of the education successfully. In other words, the quality or effective leaders and managers will makes a significant difference to school and student outcomes. Thus, as a researcher and future leader, I must always explore and review the articles, literatures and information regarding the educational leadership and management leadership which can provide me the useful guideline in the same time practise me to become a succesful leader.
From the “Educational leadership and management: theory, policy, and practice” article, I found that this article have outlined nine leadership models in contingent with six management models which was classified by the author. After I had read through the whole article, I realised there are some relative strengths and limitations of the leadership approaches outline in this article.
The first leadership model is managerial leadership. This leadership presumes that the leaders have set their priorities on functions, task and behaviors. If all three criteria’s are executed effectively, the …show more content…
It focus on the leader’s strong visions and goals, values and objectives that would inspires the organizations. The strengths of transformational leadership are the strong involvement, commitments and capacities of the organizations members. The leaders are seek to influence the school outcomes rather than on the nature. This approach has the potential to engage all stakeholders in the achievement of educational objectives. Hence, it have the capacity to achieve higher level accomplishment. However, this leadership might be seen as autocratic, as the leaders (principal) might influence the followers (teachers) believes. The absence of appropriate human, physical and financial resources were also limit the principals to achieve the transformation action and