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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to propose a new theory promoting long-term learning among mid-level leaders in schools via simulation training. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed model is derived from the socioecological model, a model that takes into account the multifaceted effects of different disciplines. The proposed…
Descriptors: Simulation, Training Methods, Middle Management, School Administration
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Serrão Cunha, Rosário; Tintoré, Mireia; Cabral, Ilídia; Matias Alves, José – Education Sciences, 2020
Due to the crucial role principals have on school outcomes, investing in their training is a cost-effective approach for schools' improvement. Research shows that principals attribute pertinence to their ongoing professional development. However, little research has been conducted on principals' training needs from their viewpoint, particularly in…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Preferences, Professional Continuing Education
Aguilar, Elena – Educational Leadership, 2017
Leading a school can be a lonely, challenging job, Elena Aguilar has found in her years coaching principals. Aguilar describes how coaching approach she's developed--transformational coaching--helps principals get three things most of them need: a neutral person they can talk with confidentially, job-embedded professional development, and a safe…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Transformative Learning, Principals, High Schools
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Flückiger, Bev; Aas, Marit; Nicolaidou, Maria; Johnson, Greer; Lovett, Susan – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Despite group coaching being used to facilitate goal-focused change in a range of organizational contexts, there is little research evidence of its use or efficacy in continuing professional development programs for educational leaders. In the first part of this article we define coaching and consider the benefits and challenges of several forms…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Professional Continuing Education, Leadership Training, Training Methods
Yamamoto, Yukiko; Enomoto, Naoko; Yamaguchi, Shinobu – Educational Considerations, 2016
Reflecting the social and economic change, Japanese education has shifted to decentralization since the 1980s. With an increased autonomy and responsibility, the local government plays an important role to develop competent school leaders. This descriptive study employs case study approach to illustrate current status of leadership development at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Hussin, Sufean; Al Abri, Saleh – International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2015
Retraining and upskilling of human resources in organizations are deemed vital whenever a reform takes place, or whenever a huge policy is being implemented on a comprehensive scale. In an education system, officers, principals, and teachers need to be retrained so as to enable them implement and manage new changes, which are manifested in the…
Descriptors: Principals, Educational Change, Professional Development, Management Development
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Enomoto, Ernestine K. – Planning and Changing, 2012
Given rural school administrators' challenges and the need to support their leadership development, this qualitative study describes how one rural school district delivered professional development through a university-school partnership to prepare its assistant principals for their work. Methods: Eight assistant principals from nine schools…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Management Development, Rural Schools, School Administration
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Gray, Cheryl; Bishop, Quentin – Journal of Staff Development, 2009
Educators and policy makers have placed leadership development at the top of the school reform agenda, believing that aspiring and new school leaders can learn the necessary skills to improve the most challenging schools. Leadership development builds the capacity of educators (teachers and administrators) to be effective in leadership roles or…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Performance Factors, Competence, Leadership Effectiveness
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Karstanje, Peter; Webber, Charles F. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2008
Purpose: This paper is intended to provide an overview of trends in European education and to offer a framework for considering the elements of school management. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reports elements of the planning and implementation of a graduate-level leadership development initiative in Bulgaria. Findings: Several lessons…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Principals
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Isaac, Patricia; Trodd, Lyn – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2008
The National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) is a programme that supports children's centre leaders to develop their own leadership capability. This research highlights the effect the particular constructivist teaching and learning methodology has had on individual tutors' and mentors' professional development.…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Mentors, School Administration, Tutors
Callan, Victor; Mitchell, John; Clayton, Berwyn; Smith, Larry – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2007
This study examines the existing and potential strategies for sustaining and building greater levels of management and leadership capability in training organisations. The research report is one of the products of a nationally based research consortium: Supporting vocational education and training (VET) providers in building capability for the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Principals, School Administration, Leadership Training
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Crisci, Pat Eva; Tutela, Alfred D. – Urban Education, 1990
Discusses the development, content, and implementation of a training program for administrative personnel who work in urban settings in the Cleveland City School District. Presents a model, The Leadership Academy, which provides assistance, upgrading, renewal, or retraining to all the district's administrators. (JS)
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Daresh, John C.; Playko, Marsha A. – 1990
A model designed to assist planners of professional development programs develop training programs for administrative mentors is described in this paper. A brief overview of basic concepts and definitions of mentoring is followed by a discussion of factors necessary to the development of mentoring, which are: trust, adequate resources, open…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrators, Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education
Collins, Lisa; White, George P. – 2001
This paper describes a model program for training pre-service elementary and secondary school principals in educationally sound and legally defensible inclusion programs extending to students with emotional and behavioral disorders (E/BD). The program has three major objectives: (1) to train pre-service school administrators (principals and…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Beginning Principals, Behavior Disorders, Curriculum