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LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOLS

Fundamentals of School Administration EDU 547 - Spring 2014 Semester Thursday, January 30, 2014 Chapter Twelve Presentation: “Leadership in Schools” Presented by: Anyha Lord-Jerris Professor: Dr. Lauren Larsen. LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOLS.

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LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOLS

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  1. Fundamentals of School AdministrationEDU 547 - Spring 2014 SemesterThursday, January 30, 2014Chapter Twelve Presentation: “Leadership in Schools”Presented by: Anyha Lord-JerrisProfessor: Dr. Lauren Larsen

  2. LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOLS “Effective education leadership makes a difference in improving learning…What’s far less clear…is just how leadership matters, how important those effects are in promoting learning of all children, and what the essential ingredients of successful leadership are.” M. Christine DeVita Taking Stock in Education Leadership “There is a growing school of thought … that men may be biologically unsuited to hold political office and leadership positions.” Maureen Dowd Are Men Necessary?

  3. ChapterOverview • Importance of leaders and leadership • Critical situational factors in educational leadership • Leader effectiveness • Contingency models • New leadership theories • Transformational leaders

  4. Defining Leadership According to Yukul (2002), “leadership should be defined broadly as a social process in which a member or members of a group or organization influence the interpretation of internal and external events, the choice of goals or desired outcomes, organization of work activities, individual motivation and abilities, power relations and shared orientations.”

  5. Leaders Versus administrators • Leaders – stress adaptive change and getting people to agree about what needs to be accomplished. • Administrators – emphasize stability and efficiency

  6. The nature of administrative work According to research, Kyung Ae Chung and Cecil Miskel (1989) summarize the major findings: • Administering schools is feverish and consuming; • School leaders rely on verbal media; • Administrator activities vary widely; • Managerial work is fragmented; for school administrators;

  7. Dominant Theoretical Approaches to understanding leadership Traits, Skills, and Leadership • Trait approach of leadership – leadership is inherited and determined by social circumstance. • Early Trait Research – personal factors associated with leadership (capacity, achievement, responsibility, participation, and status).

  8. Traits and skills associated with effective leadership

  9. Situations and leadership

  10. The Ohio state and Related leadership studies • Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (LBDQ) started in Ohio State University in the 1940’s. It measures two basic dimensions: initiating structure and consideration. • Four major findings of the study: • Initiating structure and consideration are fundamental dimensions of leader behavior • Most effective leaders integrate both high initiating structure and consideration • Superiors and subordinates tend to evaluate the contributions of the leader behavior dimensions oppositely in assessing effectiveness. • A slight relationship exists between how leaders say they should behave and how subordinates describe that they do behave.

  11. Leadership Effectiveness Effectiveness Indicators for Educational Leaders “Leadership effectiveness can be defined as having a more objective dimension – accomplishment of organizational goals – and two subjective dimensions perceptual evaluations of significant reference groups and overall job satisfaction of subordinates.”

  12. Contingency models of leadership • Instructional Leadership • Least Preferred Co-Worker Model • Substitutes for Leadership (depends on the characteristics of subordinates, of the task, and of the organization. • Distributed Leadership (leadership by teams and groups – site based management) • Reformulated Path-Goal Theory (leader behaviors, situation, and outcomes) refer to page 442 table 12.4

  13. Transformational Leadership • “James MacGregor Burns (1978) is commonly credited with formulating the ideas of transactional and transformational leadership and applying them to the political arena.” Bass built on the work of Burns and developed a “full range leadership model.” • Bass identifies three major types of leadership: • Laissez-Faire Leadership • Transactional Leadership • Transformational Leadership

  14. Three major types of leadership A Full-Range Leadership Continuum (Table 12.5 page 445) Laissez-Faire Leadership Transactional Leadership Transformational Leadership

  15. Conclusion The concept of leadership is extremely complex and ambiguous. It is evident that organizations recognize the importance and value of effective leadership as illustrated by the various theories developed and studies conducted. When examining effective leadership it is important to take a holistic approach to achieve the right balance.

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