Understand how leadership and management can be used to instigate change and improvement in a range of educational settings;

In this paper you have to discuss how the leadership and management can be used together to prompt and improve range of educational settings. Also evaluate the effectiveness of leadership and management changes.

The learning outcomes of the programmes are as follows:

Knowledge and understanding Participants will be able to:

• understand how leadership and management can be used to instigate change and improvement in a range of educational settings;
• evaluate the effectiveness of leadership and management decisions;
• understand how education policy and values influence management decisions;
• understand the importance of the role of teaching staff and of the wider community in supporting and enabling learning;
• understand the importance of using research evidence from both inside and outside educational institutions and systems;
• identify the key concepts from academic and professional literature on education management and leadership.

Intellectual and cognitive Participants will be able to:

• work in online groups and produce summaries of discussions;
• critically analyse arguments and understand when and how these might be flawed or invalid;
• assimilate and lucidly evaluate alternative views;
• reflect critically on their own management and leadership skills;
• develop an appreciation of continuing professional development needs in themselves and others;
• research issues and conduct detailed analysis in an educational environment;
• produce a thoughtful and well-structured research project.

Transferable skills Participants will be able to:

• use problem-solving skills in a range of situations;
• use fluent and effective communication and discussion skills;
• have a capacity to handle ideas and scrutinize information in critical, evaluative and analytical ways;
• be open minded and exercise initiative and personal responsibility;
• manage their own learning, including working effectively to deadlines;
• organise information, and assimilate and evaluate competing arguments