A Bad Case of Senioritis
This field of study and practice is concerned with the operation of educational organizations.
What is educational management?
This term explains how a theory ought to be implemented.
What is normative?
This term explains how a theory actually occurs in practice.
Descriptive
This main element of a leadership theory concerns what occurs outside of the organization and how it affects the organization.
What is external environment?
This main element of leadership theory concerns how the head or principal navigates the organization.
What is leadership?
Effective managers link their actions with these to ensure that all management activity is purposeful.
What are goals or aims?
This main element of a leadership theory concerns the way the organization is composed and notes how individuals within it are connected.
What is structure?
This model assumes that organizations are hierarchical systems.
What is formal models?
In the collegial model, this term explains how power is given to those who have deep understanding of a particular skill or area.
What is authority of expertise?
The formal model assumes that managerial decisions are made through this process.
What is a rational process?
Bush argues that while management relates to the implementation or technical issues that leadership links leadership to this.
What are/is values or purpose?
These are usually described as closed or open, describing the terms of the organization’s relationships with its environment?
What is a/the system?
This model emphasizes the importance of perceptions of individuals over facts.
What is the subjective model?
Theorists of the political model argue that the scarcity of this creates conflict.
What are resources?
In the cultural model, this has a significant impact on the organization, as it is emulated.
What is societal culture?
One criticism of this type of leadership, which was not part of any of the models we reviewed in class, is that it is too concerned with teaching rather than learning.
What is instructional leadership?
These teacher groups and process, now ubiquitous in US schools, are described as a manifestation of the collegial model.
What are PLCs?
This related leadership model in the political model assumes that the central focus of leadership ought to be the commitments and capacities of organizational members.
What is transformational leadership?
This term explains how individuals and/or groups interact in the ambiguity model.
What is loose coupling?
This dimension of societal culture in the cultural model notes that we accept things as they are.
What is fatalism?
One of the key components of educational leadership argues that leadership is not about authority but instead about this.
What is influence?
Bush uses this term to describe theory because it is ideologically based and often represents divergent views on how an educational institution ought to be managed.
What is “contested terrain”?
This is the definition of educational observation where observation may be followed by the development of concepts which then become theoretical frames.
What is grounded theory?
Theorists Bolan and Deal use this concept to explain how multiple leadership theories can be valid simultaneously.
What is conceptual pluralism?
This political strategy describes how a leader can use give or hold content in order to maintain control.
What is controlling information?