GRADUATE SCHOOL EDUCATION

CENTRAL MINDANAO COLLEGES

Osmeña Drive, Kidapawan City

Final Exam

Be sure that your response is supported with adequate educational research and theory. While
your personal experiences and preferences are of value, they provide an insufficient basis for
informed practice. Those scoring your exam response are looking for evidence of your ability to
analyze, synthesize and evaluate, as well as for evidence that your academic program has
increased your fluency and abilities as MA student of CMC.

Situation 1.
An education leader promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development,
articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported
by all stakeholders.

1. Describe your vision for education and explain how you could effectively use your vision
as a basis for developing a shared vision in a school setting.
2. Explain the difference between thinking and functioning as a leader and as a manager.
Analyze how the two roles relate to each other in the life of a principal.

Situation 2. An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing,
and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff
professional growth.

3. If one of your teachers were having trouble with classroom discipline, what are things
you should evaluate in the classroom, and what steps (short-term and long-term) can you
take to assist the teacher in his or her professional development?
4. Define school culture and indicate what steps you can take as a new principal to
understand your school’s culture as well as influence its shape.

Situation 3: An education leader promotes the success of every student by ensuring management
of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning
environment.

5. Some have asserted that an organization’s budget is a more accurate mission statement
than the organization’s published mission statement. Explain why this statement is or is
not true. Explain how the organization’s mission and budget should affect each other.
6. Identify and explain the major issues related to educational technology today. Describe
the implications that these issues have for the improvement of student learning. Propose
and defend a solution for the most pressing of the issues that you have identified.
Situation 4: An education leader promotes the success of every student by collaborating with
faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and
mobilizing community resources.

7. You are a new administrator in a school that is experiencing a poor relationship with
its local community. Articulate some short-term and long-term strategies that you would
implement to improve relationships with your community. Explain and defend your
strategies.

Situation 5: An education leader promotes the success of every student by acting with integrity,
fairness, and in an ethical manner.

8. Some leadership theorists

refer to the work of leadership as having a moral dimension. Assuming that they are
correct, what might be described as the moral dimension in the work of an educational
administrator? Provide and explain at least three examples of that moral dimension of
leadership.

Situation 6: An education leader promotes the success of every student by understanding,

responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.

9. Identify three of the most important contemporary educational challenges. Explain

why they are significant. Carefully analyze one of the issues and propose at least one
attractive and practical solution

Situation 7. In the midst of this COVID-19 crisis, we are sure that fellow educators, like us, are
wondering what we need to be preparing for our students in the future.

10. As an educational leader how this crisis changes our world and our global outlook; how
education needs to change to be able to better prepare our young learners for what the future
might hold. Make your own synthesis. Positive and Negative effect.