Stand Up and Be Counted: Middle Leadership in Education Contexts
Stand Up and Be Counted: Middle Leadership in Education Contexts

Author: Trevor Kerry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1000259692

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Stand Up and Be Counted provides middle leaders with increased knowledge, understanding and confidence in the leadership process. It examines the qualities that enable middle leaders to lead effectively and have a positive impact on the vision and culture of their school. With clear explanations of leadership theory, chapters cover a wide range of topics such as recruitment, coaching staff, crisis management, teamwork, setting standards, dealing with inspections, and evaluating both your own and staff performance. Full of real examples of leadership situations in schools and opportunities to reflect, this book will help middle leaders to develop the habits and skills they need to be successful in their roles. This inspirational and conceptual book: acknowledges the essentials of leadership and decision-making; highlights how teachers become leaders, including the initial status of followership; discusses the good habits and skills that teachers can adopt to prepare themselves for leadership roles; identifies key concepts for middle leaders such as vision, inspiration, courage, and self-belief; addresses the need to be a visionary and lead from the front: to be courageous. Covering all aspects of leadership and using examples from various of walks of life to illuminate the role of a leader, this book will be of great interest to middle leaders across the primary and secondary sectors as well as subject leaders looking to increase their knowledge and confidence in their development.

Ethics for Teachers and Middle Leaders
Ethics for Teachers and Middle Leaders

Author: Trevor Kerry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 1000370976

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Every school has a mission statement based on values and ethical beliefs. Ethics for Teachers and Middle Leaders sets out a way of thinking through the key issues of ethics in teaching and shows how a school’s ethical values can be translated by students and staff into action. It is designed to help rehearse certain ethical dilemmas and guide teacher leaders in helping others to think through and develop appropriate behaviours. Chapters consider the role of ethics in all aspects of school life including teacher professionalism, teaching methods, lesson planning and assessment. This book not only examines everyday concerns such as class management and presenting curriculum ethically, but also touches upon emerging issues in e-learning, career building, leadership and school governance. Packed full of real examples from schools and opportunities to reflect, the book will help readers to understand how their behaviour, decisions and advice to others might be guided and to avoid some of the common pitfalls in school. This insightful book will instil confidence in teachers and middle leaders as they face such ethical dilemmas in their daily work.

NMDME 2023
NMDME 2023

Author: Yau Yuen Yeung

Publisher: European Alliance for Innovation

Published: 2024-01-22

Total Pages: 1196

ISBN-13: 1631904450

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This book contains the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education (NMDME 2023) which was held in a hybrid form from October 13th to 15th, 2023. The conference topics include Educational Sciences, Innovative Applications of Teaching Technology, Modernized Vocational Education, Digital Media Technology, Digital Media Technology and Applications, Virtual Technology and Intelligent Media Communication, Computational Communication, and Smart Media. The conference provided a platform for discussing scientific research findings and cutting-edge technologies in the fields of new media development and modernized education to encourage collaboration in the industrialization of academic achievements. We invited specialists and intellectuals to attend the conference, sharing their excellent contributions and perspectives in the speeches. We hope that the scientific attitudes and skills developed through research will encourage scholars worldwide to contribute to the development of knowledge generated by research. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the conference chair, publication chairs, technical program committee chairs, local organizing chairs, program committee chairs, conference secretariat, and conference sponsors for their financial support, which made the successful organization of NMDME 2023 possible. We hope that this conference will continue to be held in the coming years, publishing more insightful articles with inspiring research.

The Leader in Me
The Leader in Me

Author: Stephen R. Covey

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 147110446X

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Children in today's world are inundated with information about who to be, what to do and how to live. But what if there was a way to teach children how to manage priorities, focus on goals and be a positive influence on the world around them? The Leader in Meis that programme. It's based on a hugely successful initiative carried out at the A.B. Combs Elementary School in North Carolina. To hear the parents of A. B Combs talk about the school is to be amazed. In 1999, the school debuted a programme that taught The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peopleto a pilot group of students. The parents reported an incredible change in their children, who blossomed under the programme. By the end of the following year the average end-of-grade scores had leapt from 84 to 94. This book will launch the message onto a much larger platform. Stephen R. Covey takes the 7 Habits, that have already changed the lives of millions of people, and shows how children can use them as they develop. Those habits -- be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek to understand and then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw -- are critical skills to learn at a young age and bring incredible results, proving that it's never too early to teach someone how to live well.

Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning and Achievement
Successful School Leadership: Linking with Learning and Achievement

Author: Christopher Day

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2011-05-16

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0335242456

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This book is based on the largest and most extensive empirical study of contemporary leadership in primary and secondary schools in England. The results demonstrate that heads of successful schools improve the quality of student learning and achievement through who they are – their values, virtues, dispositions and competencies – as well as their timely use of change and improvement strategies. Successful School Leadership provides a comprehensive analysis of the values and qualities of head teachers. It assesses the strategies they use and how they adapt these to their particular school context in order to ensure positive increases in the learning, well being and achievement of their students. The authors: Identify a basic set of leadership practices resulting from their findings Analyse and describe the leadership values, qualities and behaviours related to different phases in schools’ improvement journeys Provide illustrative case studies of primary and secondary schools that highlight context sensitive strategies Provide a contemporary overview of international research and thinking about successful school leadership Recognize similar and distinguishing features between schools in different socio-economic groups This book is valuable reading for…school leaders and senior teachers, educational policy makers and advisors, as well as anyone involved or interested in education and its leadership.

Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement
Diagnosis and Design for School Improvement

Author: James P. Spillane

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-17

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0807770779

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In this practical resource, The authors maintain that to effect real reform today's educators must understand how leading and managing for instructional improvement gets done in their school and in turn use their diagnoses as the basis for mindful design and redesign.

School Leadership and Complexity Theory
School Leadership and Complexity Theory

Author: Keith R. B. Morrison

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0415277833

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This book moves forward the agenda significantly. It enables educational leadership and management discourse to be informed by the latest views that are becoming well established in business and organisational literature in practice.

Contemporary Readings in Literacy Education
Contemporary Readings in Literacy Education

Author: Marva Cappello

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2009-12-08

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1412965918

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Contemporary Readings in Literacy Education is designed to provide students with high-quality journal and research articles in literacy education. The readings are contextualized with introductions and discussion questions by the editors of the text. The text will help instructors to easily integrate the latest research into their course in a meaningful way. This reader, with edited content and contextualizing material, makes the latest research more interesting and accessible to the students of literacy education.