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Educational Leadership: Working for Good – Online Course

Explore educational leadership and develop leadership skills through critical thinking with this online course for school leaders Change the way you understand educational leadership Leadership is about thinking On this course you will explore educational leadership and develop leadership skills through critical thinking with this online course for school leaders Leaders in schools colleges and nurseries have a responsibility to put education first despite being bound by standardisation and the business mindset of policy creation On this course you will feel empowered to rethink your understanding of how leadership is created and the ways it can benefit your students and colleagues Through critical thinking you will explore how to take control of your own leadership skills You will discuss different models of educational leadership and identify the challenges and opportunities that leadership offers This is not a practical or hands-on leadership solution but will instead challenge you to think and develop your intellectual capacity Youll come away with a different understanding of educational leadership Researching leadership in the context of education and individual professional contexts The relationship between historical and contemporary practices of leadership in an educational context Comparing and evaluating leadership models within education and how education as an industry is changing Comparison between national and international schools leadership Differences between educational policy and systems and how they impact on leadership

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