ELM Assignment
The Impact of Principal Leadership on Secondary School Climate and Culture
Part 1 - Personal/professional reflection (approximately 500 words)
In this section you need to reflect on why you have chosen the particular topic, issue, challenge or policy issue that is relevant to educational leadership and management and your professional or personal experience with this.
Key questions that you need to think about with regards to this section are:
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Based on your personal/professional experiences with leadership and management in an education setting, what phase of education will you focus on?
Is there a specific country that you will focus on?
What is the focus for your writing with regards to leadership and management? Why is this an issue?
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Issue
Challenge
Topic
Part 2 - Organisational cultural and the implications for leadership and management (approximately 1,000 words)
In relation to the particular topic, issue, challenge or policy issue that is relevant to educational leadership and management, critically discuss appropriate cultural aspects of the educational settings/phase of education that you have identified and the implications for leaders and managers. Get Help Now!
You need to critically explore the concepts that you believe help you to understand the issue that you are writing about. This will include describing the concept, discussing benefits and limitations, and connecting it to your issue.
At all times you are thinking about what the implications are for leadership and management.
What are the concepts related to organisational culture that can help make sense of the issue that you will be writing about?
What are the implications of these aspects of organisational culture that could affect leaders and managers?
Part 3 -Theories, processes and stakeholders (approximately 1,500 words)
For this section you need to identify the organisational processes that are affected by your issue.
You then need to explore the educational leadership and management theories that can help you to understand your issuefurther
Then you need to explain how this affects particular stakeholders in the organisation
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What are the organisational processes that are implicated in your issue?
What are the leadership and management theories that can be applied to these organisational processes that help you to understand your issue?
Who are the stakeholders that are impacted by this issue (internal and external)?
How are they impacted by the organisational processes?
Part 4 - Research on educational leadership and management (approximately 1,500 words)
For this part of your assignment you will need to critically evaluate and assess the current research that you have found about your topic, explaining what the current thinking is around your issue, with regards to educational leaders and managers.
You need to be using education databases and search strategies (as discussed in your CEEL module) to locate, critically think about and synthesise in your assignment.