Educational leadership : a problem-based approach /
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Formaat: | Boek |
Taal: | English |
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Boston :
Allyn and Bacon,
©2003.
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Editie: | 2nd ed. |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 1. Administrative theory and leadership responsibility
- Flem Snopes High School: a new administrative team
- Educational leadership
- Human capital and the accumulated knowledge base
- Administrative process and knowledge
- Administrative platforms
- The knowledge base in educational administration
- 2. Context and perspective for educational leaders
- Scrivner Middle School: Understanding the context
- Contextual knowledge
- Broad, complex context
- Educational origins
- Establishing National Goals
- The 1990s and beyond
- New technological demands
- State roles and responses
- Challenges in the twenty-first century
- 3. School reform
- Scrivner Middle School: Reform at Scrivner
- The call for school reform
- The context for school reform
- Innovative programs
- Harnessing technology
- The leadership challenge
- 4. Cultural diversity and community relations
- Oakes High School: Cultures clash in Fairhaven
- Diversity in schools
- Racial categories: what's in a name?
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Competing perspectives: theories, models and approaches to race, class and gender
- Segregation, desegregation and integration
- Fostering school, family and community partnerships
- Connecting schools and community organizations.
- 5. School district organizational structure and leadership
- Ophilia School District: Political tensions
- The local role
- The local school division
- The school board
- The school division superintendent
- Central Office Operations
- The School Administrator
- 6. Successful school leadership
- Atlas Shrug High School: failing health
- Assessing leadership characteristics
- Paradigms of leadership: a growing knowledge base
- Leadership instrument analyses
- Recent theories of leadership
- The reflective practitioner
- Leadership traits or skills
- 7. Moral and ethical dimensions of leadership
- Cuyamaca High School: Value Collision
- The purposes of leadership
- Creating community
- Ethics-based leadership
- Foundations of ethical behavior: standards for good practice
- Being an ethical leader: approaches to skill development
- Building an educational platform
- 8. Program development, delivery and assessment
- Linto Elementary School: program improvement
- Conceptions of Academic Achievement
- Teaching and learning approaches
- Curriculum design and educational programming
- Curricular and instructional change
- Program improvement and evaluation
- Utilizing time
- Assessing student progress
- 9. Pupil personnel services
- Thurber High School: student problems
- Pupil Personnel-Student service team
- Counseling, guidance, psychological services
- Special education and remedial instruction
- School health service
- Child accounting and school safety
- Pupil appraisal, testing and diagnostics
- Extracurricular activities
- Integrating services for children and families.
- 10. Human resource management
- Lincoln Elementary School: staffing problems
- Taking care of the staff
- Job analysis, classification and staff planning
- Recruitment
- Selection
- Alternative selection approaches
- Performance appraisal and evaluation
- Staff development
- Organizational development
- Wage and salaries considerations
- Collective bargaining
- Employee records and reports
- Employee litigation
- 11. Schools and the law
- Benton I.S.D.: Not following school board policy
- Legal responsibility
- The U.S. legal system
- Legal issues and schools
- Monitoring compliance with policies and procedures
- 12. Resource allocation and management
- Oceanview School District: identifying funding sources for Meadows High
- Financing schools
- Federal involvement in financing schools
- State involvement in financing schools
- Local involvement in financing schools
- Vouchers
- Nontraditional revenue sources
- Revenue sources for independent schools
- Grant writing
- Budgeting, accounting and facility management
- Types of budgeting
- Activity funds
- Fiscal accounting
- The audit
- Managing school supplies and equipment
- Maintaining school buildings and grounds
- School safety
- 13. Problem-based learning projects
- Problem-based learning
- Facilitating groups.