Module XME-4314:
Leading and Managing Education Professionals
Module Facts
Run by School of Educational Sciences
20.000 Credits or 10.000 ECTS Credits
Overall aims and purpose
This module focuses on the models, approaches and practices required to effectively lead and manage education professionals. It explores the practices associated with leading and managing education professionals, in different education settings, by drawing explicitly upon the international evidence bases concerning system leadership, middle leadership, curriculum leadership, teacher leadership and leading professional learning. The module will consider theories of collaborative and distributed leadership in relation to leading and managing other professionals. It will also consider the relationship between local and national policy imperatives and the practice of leading and managing education professionals, particularly in relation to the realisation of system leadership in different countries and contexts.
Course content
Exploration of the models, approaches and practices required to lead and manage education professionals. Evaluation of the practices associated with effectively leading and managing professionals in different education settings. Examination of the international evidence bases concerning system leadership, middle leadership, curriculum leadership, teacher leadership and leading professional learning. Exploration of the relationship between local and national policy imperatives and the practice of leading and managing others.
Learning outcomes
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Identify the models, approaches and practices required to lead and manage education professionals.
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Critically evaluate the international evidence concerning system leadership, middle leadership, curriculum leadership, teacher leadership and leading professional learning.
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Evaluate theories of collaborative and distributed leadership and how they frame the effective leadership of professional learning.
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Critically evaluate the practices associated with leading and managing education professionals effectively in different education settings.
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Critically explore relationship between local/national policy imperatives and the practice of leading and managing others.
Assessment Methods
Type | Name | Description | Weight |
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Online resource to support leadership | 100.00 |
Teaching and Learning Strategy
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Seminar | 6 | |
Lecture | 16 | |
Private study | 178 |
Resources
Talis Reading list
http://readinglists.bangor.ac.uk/modules/xme-4314.htmlReading list
Bush, T., Bell, L., & Middlewood, D. (Eds.). (2019). Principles of Educational Leadership & Management. SAGE Publications Limited. Lieberman, A., Campbell, C., & Yashkina, A. (2016). Teacher learning and leadership: Of, by, and for teachers. London, Taylor & Francis. Fleming, P. (2019). Successful middle leadership in secondary schools: A practical guide to subject and team effectiveness. Routledge. Harris, A., Jones, M., & Huffman, J. B. (Eds.). (2017). Teachers leading educational reform: The power of professional learning communities. Routledge. Leithwood, K., Harris, A., & Hopkins, D. (2020). Seven strong claims about successful school leadership revisited. School Leadership & Management, 40(1), 5-22.
Courses including this module
Optional in courses:
- X3BJ: MA/CAC Cenedlaethol Addysg (Cymru) year 1 (MA/CAC)