Educational Leadership and School Management

What this page covers

The resources here look at how schools are led and run. Many are mind maps, and they return often to instructional leadership, distributed leadership, teacher leadership and leadership for school improvement. Others look at school culture, safety, governance, innovation and working with parents.

Flowcharts on the purpose of educational management sit alongside them, and there are notes on quality assurance and programme review.

Where to start

Begin with the slide set Understanding New Requirements for Leadership of School Improvement. It uses research articles to build a framework for understanding leadership. Then open the mind map Educational Leadership, which sets out instructional leadership, organisational factors and distributed leadership in one view.

1. Read the slide set for the big picture.
2. Open the Educational Leadership mind map to see the main ideas side by side.
3. Move to Characteristics of an Effective School for the school environment, the principal, behaviour management and communication among teachers.
4. Look at Teacher Leadership to see roles such as resource provider and instructional specialist.

Using quizzes and maps together

The quizzes are scenario-based. In SLLA Standard 2, a school board reports rising dropout figures and the principal is asked to respond. Other quizzes include Administrator Exam 2, which asks about Response to Instruction, and a run of Praxis quizzes.

• Read a map on a topic first.
• Take a quiz and note which scenarios catch you out.
• Return to the matching map and add your own notes.

The page also has flashcard decks, including PSELs Flash Cards, for quick recall of key terms.

Where it sits

This unit belongs to the Foundations of Education strand within Education and pedagogy. It suits university students and professional candidates preparing for leadership roles, and teachers who want to see how school management shapes their work.

Open a map or quiz that matches what you are studying now, then make your own version to keep.