Module XME-4483:
Educational Leadership
Educational Leadership and Management 2024-25
XME-4483
2024-25
School of Education
Module - PGT
30 credits
Module Organiser:
Huw Clwyd Phillips
Overview
This 30 credit module enables students to have a critical understanding and appreciation of effective educational leadership.
The following topics are covered in this module:
- Context for leadership and management
- Organisational cultures, structures and roles
- Models of educational leadership
- Leading and managing through teams
- Instructional leadership
- Distributed leadership
- Recruitment and selection
- Induction and retention
- Leading and managing performance
- Leading and managing change
- Managing conflict
- Curriculum leadership and curriculum reform in Wales
- Leading and managing staff
- School leadership in Wales
- International perspectives on leadership
Assessment Strategy
Threshold - at this level students show evidence of planning which leads to a satisfactory assignment structure, satisfactory understanding of theories and analysis, and appropriate use of research. Arguments are supported by appropriate evidence. Assignment mark range - 50% - 59%. Category - PASS
- Good - at this level students show good insight, offer sustained and relevant analysis. Assignments are well researched and referenced, written with a clear structure and style. Assignment mark range - 60% - 69%. Category - MERIT
-Excellent - at this level students demonstrate excellence in power of analysis, argument and originality. Students also demonstrate excellent organisation, use a wide range of research and stylistic quality. Assignment mark range - 70%+ Category - DISTINCTION
Learning Outcomes
- Be able to effectively contextualise their understanding so as to critically evaluate the leadership and management in an educational organisation
with which they are familiar.
- Have a critical understanding of leadership and management in the context of educational organisations
- Have a critical understanding of the nature and leadership of change in educational organisations.
Assessment method
Essay
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Assignment essay of 2,400 words on models of educational leadership
Weighting
40%
Assessment method
Essay
Assessment type
Summative
Description
Assignment 2 - an essay of 3,600 words on leading and managing a change event (worth 40% of the marks)
Weighting
60%