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Coventry University program
Leadership of People
Explore how the key to effective leadership lies in meeting development needs
This program aims to develop and enhance your knowledge of the fundamental principles underlying effective leadership of people in a school setting.
You will have the chance to critically reflect on the application of a principle-driven performance management system for teachers and non-teaching staff. This is an important and potent tool for educational leaders to understand who you are leading, and to ensure your values are clearly understood and reliably acted upon.
Lesson observation, target setting, performance related pay, and capability and disciplinary processes will also be considered.
Courses
5 courses
This program contains a portfolio, where you'll be able to gather your work and get feedback from course educators.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion, you should be able to demonstrate:
- Knowledge and understanding of the importance of performance management in establishing the honourable treatment of education employees: finding out how they perform, designing effective professional development opportunities and discharging their moral obligation to pupils
- Knowledge and understanding of the key principles which define an effective performance management policy
- Application of knowledge through case study activities in new or unfamiliar situations
- Integrating knowledge and handling complexity, and formulating judgments in your response to the online materials and in the two assessed pieces
- Commitment to a problem-solving approach, for formulating judgments
- Originality of thought and the academic skills of synthesis and analysis
- Ability to communicate your conclusions and the reasons for them to specialist and non-specialist audiences through online collaborative learning sets