Organizational Leadership
Online / Live
September 2024 (additional starts in November 2024, January 2025, and April 2025)
8 weeks
SEA Certificate of Completion
English
360
This course stands out with its unique hands-on approach, providing practical tools for comprehensive school self-evaluation and improvement planning. Participants benefit from opportunities to measure and enhance collective teacher efficacy, school assets for improvement, and school improvement planning.
The purpose of this course is to empower school leaders with the skills and knowledge necessary to drive effective school improvement. By utilizing analytic tools and applying organizational theory, participants will enhance their decision-making capabilities. The course emphasizes the importance of selecting appropriate data and metrics for self-evaluation and improvement processes, fostering an understanding of the interconnectedness between self-evaluation, school improvement, and continuous improvement. Ultimately, participants will design and develop practical tools and templates to support ongoing self-evaluation and strategic planning, ensuring sustained progress and excellence in their respective schools.
(1) Utilize analytic tools to interpret a school's complexity in relation to improvement goals.
(2) Apply knowledge of organizational theory to school improvement procedures, such that a school leader improves decision-making quality.
(3) Choose and apply appropriate data and metrics for use with self-evaluation and school improvement processes.
(4) Understand the relationship between self-evaluation and school improvement, as well as between school improvement and continuous improvement.
(5) Design and develop tools and templates to support self-evaluation and school improvement planning in their respective schools.
This course equips school leaders with analytic 0tools to interpret school complexities and align improvement goals. Participants will apply organizational theory to enhance decision-making and select appropriate data and metrics for self-evaluation and school improvement. The course explores the relationships between self-evaluation, school improvement, and continuous improvement, guiding leaders in designing and developing tools and templates to support their school's self-evaluation and improvement planning processes.
2 hours per week (requires active engagement in all sessions, whereby participants share reflections and successes in the application to their schools; the course contains a final learning assessment)
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University City, Sharjah
United Arab Emirates
