Obtaining Validation from Graduates on a Restructured Principal Preparation Program

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Ballenger ◽  
Betty Alford ◽  
Sandra Mccune ◽  
Donice Mccune
Keyword(s):  
Educational Administration ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Colleges Of Education ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Program Comparison ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The University

Colleges of education have come under scrutiny in their preparation of principals. Even professors of education have joined in the criticism characterizing these programs as bankrupt, fragmented, and going down a road to nowhere (Norton, 2002). This article is part of a collaborative research effort of the University Council for Educational Administration, the goal of which is to engage the leadership preparation field more broadly in the individual and comparative study of each program's effectiveness and impact (Orr & Pounder, 2006). This study used within-program comparison of follow-up survey responses from two sets of program graduates from a university-based leadership preparation program to determine differences in program features and outcome measures.

What’s Ethics Got to Do With It? Pedagogical Support for Ethical Student Learning in a Principal Preparation Program

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Educational Administration ◽  
Principal Preparation ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Leadership Education ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
Education In Ethics ◽  
The University ◽  
University Council

The article’s purposes are to review research on leadership education in ethics and examine a pedagogic intervention designed to raise consciousness about ethical leadership and learning within graduate school. A yearlong study—carried out in a principal preparation program that is a full member of the University Council for Educational Administration—is the basis of the development and impact of an ethics unit. Understandings of ethics regarding leadership preparation standards and social justice orientations for preservice cohorts are analyzed. Qualitative methods used are a targeted literature review and a document analysis of assignments. Directions for research, pedagogy, and practice end this discussion.

Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

2016 ◽  
pp. 1460-1481
Author(s):  
Shelby Cosner ◽  
Steve Tozer ◽  
Paul Zavitkovsky
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Cycle Of Inquiry ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Doctorates

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implementation within a doctoral-level leadership preparation program.

Enacting a Cycle of Inquiry Capstone Research Project in Doctoral-Level Leadership Preparation

2016 ◽  
pp. 162-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby Cosner ◽  
Steve Tozer ◽  
Paul Zavitkovsky
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Cycle Of Inquiry ◽  
Principal Preparation Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Professional Doctorates

Over the last decade, the doctorate in Urban Education Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) has been redesigned to respond to two distinct but important challenges: (a) the challenge of creating greater distinction between the academic and professional doctorates, and (b) the challenge of improving the nature and quality of its principal preparation program. Within the context of a broader multi-year program improvement and redesign effort, program faculty designed and enacted an alternate Culminating Research Experience (CRE) for their doctoral students. This CRE emphasizes the leadership of cycles of inquiry for school-wide improvement over a two-year period of time and the subsequent analysis of this work using empirical and scholarly literature. The accounting provided in this article advances existing literature by making visible many of the important granular details associated with this CRE as well as considerations associated with its design and implementation within a doctoral-level leadership preparation program.

Restructuring Educational Leadership Preparation: Identifying Needed Conditions

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Daresh
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Northern Colorado ◽  
University Of Northern Colorado ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Leadership Preparation ◽  
Linkage Relationships

In this article, a description is presented of the strategy and steps that were followed at the University of Northern Colorado in restructuring its educational leadership preparation program. Details are provided concerning the ways in which changes were made, and how these changes were supported through attention to personnel issues, linkage relationships within the university, and linkages outside the university.

Preparing Administrators for the World of Practice: A Proactive View of Principalship Preparation

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
General Description ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The World

This paper reviews current elements of administrative thought and practice with the expressed intent of providing a comprehensive outline for new programmatic ventures in the field of principalship preparation. In conjunction with this review, a general description of an existing nontraditional leadership preparation program is included. As this research is united with actual practice, it is hoped that university administrators and educational administration faculty will be offered a new paradigm for the preparation of principals for the 21st century.

“Hold on! I’ll Just Google It!”: Critical Conversations Regarding Dimensions of Diversity in a School Leadership Preparation Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa Boske ◽  
Chinasa Elue
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Educational Administration ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Graduate Assistants ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Systems Of Domination

This case outlines a dilemma encountered by faculty and graduate assistants in a K-12 educational administration graduate program. The case offers a detailed illustration of tensions arising when faculty were asked to increase “diversity” within their program. Faculty uncover disrupting institutional systems of domination that often play a significant role in understanding how to prepare leaders to serve in authentic and meaningful ways. Implications for the development of social justice–oriented school leaders included an intentional examination of these issues.

Ready to Lead

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-204
Author(s):  
Jess R. Weiler ◽  
Heidi B. Von Dohlen
Keyword(s):  
School Leaders ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Leadership Preparation ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Preparation Program ◽  
Collaborative Dialogue ◽  
Leadership Standards ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Principal Preparation Program

This chapter shares the way in which one principal preparation program builds and assesses leadership capacity through the use of a tool called Core Competencies for School Leaders or CCSL. The CCSL tool views competencies as actionable behaviors that can be observed and measured in both quantitative and/or qualitative ways. Competencies cross several leadership domains, determined primarily by established state and national leadership standards. The CCSLs provide relevant, contextually responsive, standard-based, and research informed field experiences. The authors purport the CCSLs and the wrap-around processes of which learning is dependent (e.g., reflection, collaborative dialogue, feedback), advance awareness, and capacity across leadership domains. Competencies serve to both build and evaluate leadership capacity. In conjunction with other research informed practices for leadership preparation, competencies can play an integral role in the development and growth of aspiring school leaders.

‘A Routh O’ Auld Nick-Nackets’ – the antiquarian collection of John Rae

2015 ◽  
Vol 36-37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-183
Author(s):  
Paul Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Case ◽  
National Museums ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

John Rae, a Scottish antiquarian collector and spirit merchant, played a highly prominent role in the local natural history societies and exhibitions of nineteenth-century Aberdeen. While he modestly described his collection of archaeological lithics and other artefacts, principally drawn from Aberdeenshire but including some items from as far afield as the United States, as a mere ‘routh o’ auld nick-nackets' (abundance of old knick-knacks), a contemporary singled it out as ‘the best known in private hands' (Daily Free Press 4/5/91). After Rae's death, Glasgow Museums, National Museums Scotland, the University of Aberdeen Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, as well as numerous individual private collectors, purchased items from the collection. Making use of historical and archive materials to explore the individual biography of Rae and his collection, this article examines how Rae's collecting and other antiquarian activities represent and mirror wider developments in both the ‘amateur’ antiquarianism carried out by Rae and his fellow collectors for reasons of self-improvement and moral education, and the ‘professional’ antiquarianism of the museums which purchased his artefacts. Considered in its wider nineteenth-century context, this is a representative case study of the early development of archaeology in the wider intellectual, scientific and social context of the era.

IMAGERY AND EMOTIONS IN THE PIANO PIECE „THE SICK DOLL“ FROM CHILDREN’S ALBUM OF P . I TCHAIKOVSKY

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-113
Author(s):  
Smilena Smilkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Art Pedagogy

The proposed material examines the creative task of students majoring in Social Pedagogy at the University „Prof. Dr. Assen Zlatarov“ in Burgas, and studying the discipline Art Pedagogy – Part 1 – Music. In the course of the lecture course students get acquainted with the elements of musical expression, as a means of figurative representations and impact of music, with different techniques concerning individual musical activities, with the endless and diverse opportunities that music provides in the use of art pedagogy for social work teachers.Verbal interpretation of music is a necessary component when working with children with special educational needs, at risk and in the norm. Looking at Tchaikovsky’s short and extremely figurative piano piece „The Sick Doll“ from his charming „Children’s Album“, in the form of a short story, tale or essay, students express their personal vision, feeling and transformation of the musical image. The aim of the task is to transcribe the sound image into a verbal one. This requires speed, flexibility and logic in thinking, through imagination and creativity in its manifestation. Children love to listen, especially when they are involved. In search of the right way to solve problems and situations, future social educators could successfully benefit from the conversion of sound into words, according to the needs and deficits of the individual or group.

A University Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
University Education ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Universities have a crucial role in the modern world. In England, entrance to universities is by nation-wide competition which means English universities have an exceptional influence on schools--a striking theme of the book. This important book first investigates the university as an institution and then tracks the individual on their journey to and through university. In A University Education, David Willetts presents a compelling case for the ongoing importance of the university, both as one of the great institutions of modern society and as a transformational experience for the individual. The book also makes illuminating comparisons with higher education in other countries, especially the US and Germany. Drawing on his experience as UK Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, the author offers a powerful account of the value of higher education and the case for more expansion. He covers controversial issues in which he was involved from access for disadvantaged students to the introduction of L9,000 fees. The final section addresses some of the big questions for the future, such as the the relationship between universities and business, especially in promoting innovation.. He argues that the two great contemporary trends of globalisation and technological innovation will both change the university significantly. This is an authoritative account of English universities setting them for the first time in their new legal and regulatory framework.

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