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Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric
Task 2 – Leadership Models Magazine

1. General Description of the Course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name Educational management
Course Code 551030
Course Type Methodological Retake Yes ☒ No ☐
Exam
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 3
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
Moment:
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
175 points
Environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity: October 6th,
September 16th, 2019 2019
Competences to Develop:
Argumentative, propositional and technological
Topics to Develop:
Concept of leadership in educational management
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
This stage is going to be developed in two stages, one individual and the
other collaborative, in order to plan an ideal model of educational
leadership and management for a school or university.
Activities to Develop
Task 2. To create a magazine about Leadership Models in
education.
Part 1: Individual activity
Study the contents for Unit 1 and do the next activities:

1. Go to the knowledge environment and open the book Leadership and

strategic management in education from Bush and Coleman (2000).
Read the chapter 3 about vision, mission and strategy and take notes
about this information.
2. Choose one school (primary or high school) and analyze its vision
and mission and according to this, try to establish the strategy it has
for management. Support your ideas based on the documents you
read from unit 1 content.
3. Post your ideas in the forum, without attaching any document.
Present the school’s vision, mission and your analysis of the strategy
for management.
4. Choose one of the collaborative work roles to work in group with your
partners.

Part 2: Collaborative activity

All the forum participants need to design as the group’s product an

online magazine in order to present the individual and collaborative
products. You need to do the next:

1. Read the document Educational leadership and management: Theory,

policy, and practice from Bush (2007). According to Bush’ typology of
management and leadership models (pg 394), fill in this chart. Each
student needs to decide which model will analyze in order to fill its
information in the chart. Discuss in the forum who will analyze each
model and how you will share the information for the chart.
Leadership model Focused on Dimensions or Role of s
principles principals
Managerial
Transformational
Participative
Instructional
Political and
transactional
2. Design a power point presentation in which you all include each
participant’s individual task (analysis of vision, mission and strategy
of management of a school) and the chart about the leadership
models. This presentation must contain maximum 15 slides.
3. Post this presentation in the forum. After revision of the final group’s
power point presentation, turn it into a pdf file.
4. Take into account the collaborative work roles in order to work
collaboratively in the forum.
5. Use the tool Flipsnack to make your group’s online magazine. This
website let you create online magazines by using pdf documents, but
the pdf files will have maximum 15 slides. Visit the website at
https://www.flipsnack.com/es/digital-magazine/.
6. After creating the online magazine, the group’s submitter must post
the publishing link in the forum.
7. The final group’s document will be the group’s power point
presentation in which you include at the end of it the link from the
online magazine. Submit this document to the monitoring and
evaluation environment.
8.

Environmen
This activity will be developed in the forum created in
ts for the
the collaborative environment. The final document must
Developme
be submitted in the monitoring and evaluation
nt of the
environment.
Activity
Individual:
An analysis about the vision, mission and strategy of
Products to
management of a specific school posted in the forum.
be
Submitted Collaborative:
by Students An online magazine in which all the individual analysis
and the chart about leadership models are going to be
presented.

3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Planning of Group discussion on the forum to design and

Activities for the create the power point presentation in which the
Development of individual analysis and the chart about leadership
Collaborative models are going to be presented.
Work Revision of posts to improve the written texts.
Posting of the link of the online magazine.
Compiler:
Puts together the final product and includes the
work done only by those who participated on
time. Informs the student in charge of alerts
about people who did not participate and will not
be included in the final product.
Reviser / editor:
Makes sure the written work follows all the
criteria established in the activity guide.
Evaluator:
Roles to be Evaluates the final document to ensure it follows
Performed by the the evaluation criteria of the rubric and informs
Student in the the student in charge of alerts about any changes
Collaborative that need to be made before delivering the
Group product.
Submitter:
Student in charge of informing about the dates
set for presenting each task and delivering the
final product according to the course agenda. Also
informs other students that the final product has
been sent.
Alerts:
Informs group participants about any news in the
work being done and reports the delivery of the
final product to the course tutor.
Roles and Duties
All the roles presented above are in charge of
for the Submission
creating, revising, editing, submitting the final
of Products by
group’s product.
Students
All references considered for this activity have to
References
be cited using APA Style.
Students must be aware of the risks and
Plagiarism Policy
penalties in case of plagiarism.
 Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions
that infringe the academic order, among others,
are the following: paragraph e) "Plagiarism is to
present as your own work all or part of a written
report, task or document of invention carried out
by another person. It also implies the use of
citations or lack of references, or it includes
citations where there is no match between these
and the reference" and paragraph f) " To
reproduce, or copy for profit, educational
resources or results of research products, which
have rights reserved for the University ".
(Acuerdo 029 - 13 De Diciembre de 2013,
Artículo 99)

The academic penalties that the student will face

are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the

academic work or evaluation, the score obtained
will be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary
measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work
of any nature, the score obtained will be zero
(0.0), without any disciplinary measures being
derived.

To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see

the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved from
http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/

4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation rubric
Task 2 – Leadership Models Magazine
Activity Individual Collaborati
☐ ☒
type: Activity ve Activity
Evaluation Intermedia
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
moment te
Evaluated Performance levels of the individual activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
You didn’t
You presented You presented
Part 1: present the
school’s the analyzed only the vision or
vision nor the
vision and school’s vision the mission of the 20
mission of the
mission and mission. analyzed school. points
analyzed school.
presentatio
n (up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Part 1: The arguments You didn’t post
The arguments on
Argumenta on the analysis the analysis
the text are
tive are meaningful about the
weak, not clear or
explanatio and clear, and strategy of
are not based on
n of the based on Bush’s management of 40
Bush’s idea of
school’s idea of strategy. the analyzed points
strategy.
school.
strategy of
manageme (up to 40 (up to 20 (up to 0
nt points) points) points)
Spelling and Spelling and Spelling and
grammar are grammar are grammar reflect
accurate. Any accurate. Errors errors that, at
error is minor are infrequent times, interfere
Part 1:
and infrequent and do not with 20
Language
and does not interfere with comprehension. points
accuracy
interfere with comprehension.
comprehension.
(Up to 20 (Up to 13 (Up to 5
points) points) points)
You participated You participated You did not
in the forum on in the forum once participate in
Part 1:
time and gave or twice and the the forum.
Individual
meaningful contributions
and timely 15
feedback about were not
participatio points
your partners’ meaningful.
n in the
work.
forum
(Up to 15 (Up to 0
(Up to 8 points)
points) points)
Evaluated Performance levels of the collaborative activity
Score
items High score Average score Low score
You analyzed the
You analyzed the
Part 2: chosen model but
chosen model You didn’t
leadership your ideas for the
and filled in the analyze any
models chart are not
chart with leadership 20
chart completed or are
appropriate model. points
(individual not appropriate
information.
contributio enough.
n) (Up to 20 (Up to 12 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The chart
presents The chart
information presents
about all the information of
Part 2: The chart was
models and this most of the
leadership not presented. 20
is accurate models, but this
models points
according to is not accurate
chart
what the author enough.
stated.
(Up to 20 (Up to 12 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The graphics are The graphics The graphics are
eye-catching and satisfactorily not relevant to
Part 2:
highly relevant express at least the headlines or
Online 15
to one or more one of the main are missing
magazine: points
of the headlines. ideas. entirely.
graphics
(Up to 15 (Up to 0
(Up to 8 points)
points) points)
Navigation of the Navigation is Site is difficult
site is clear, easy reasonably easy, to navigate and
Part 2: and intuitive. and the menu has no obvious
Online Menu links are links are menu links. 10
magazine: straightforward somewhat clear. points
usability and accessible.
(Up to 10 (Up to 3
(Up to 7 points)
points) points)
Part 2: The document The document The final
15
Content of includes all includes some but document was
points
the final suggested items. not all the not submitted
product suggested items by any student.
(Up to 15 (Up to 0
(Up to 9 points)
points) points)
Final score 175
Points