Essay On Leadership in Educational Management
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ScribdTranslationsLEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT
In this globalized world we live in, leadership is of great importance.
for the development of companies, organizations, and educational institutions since
allow the development of these making them more efficient and capable. For leadership
It is the ability of a person to influence, motivate, organize, and carry out.
actions to achieve their ends and objectives; it is an opportunity, it can be exercised by
many people in different environments: educational, family, sports, professional
scientific, social, military, political, in this case we will talk about the educational sector
specifically in educational management.
Every society in the process of change demands educational organizations with capability.
to develop competencies, innovate, seek the quality of its processes and of a
continuous improvement in accordance with the needs of the environment. When talking about institutions
It is essential to mention the drivers of these, the leaders of today,
the teachers or directors, those who achieve the success of their organizations and who
they guide others to achieve it. The successful leader faces educational change and
for this, it must be understood that it is a continuous process. For David Fishman, 'The
Leaders achieve their power through different means, some obtain it because they are
visionaries, others for their creativity and others for their integrity. But they all have a
common element that gives them the title of leaders: passion for what
"They do" In other words, if a person has that vision of the future, they are very creative and
Having passion for what you do is able to create changes and transform realities.
The director has the opportunity to exercise leadership to achieve quality in his
work team or your institution. Where to start? Embarking on the path to the
Quality is to initiate a learning process. To support the improvement process the
the director should have an example, pay attention to everyone's opinions, know how to listen and
provide support without judging. If someone needs special attention, try to identify it.
to act in a timely manner. It has to generate and seek to inspire trust. For the
UNESCO 'good school leadership consists of transforming feelings and attitudes'
and opinions, as well as practices, in order to improve the culture of the school.
The main support for the change in the educational system is to break with the
traditional schemes, step towards dynamic and flexible organization and management
where the director is willing to exercise shared leadership. Then it is
It is essential for the other teachers to participate in the process to establish the
change and the basis of innovation, for this it is necessary that they can work together
in work meetings, giving and receiving help, dialoguing and conversing about change in
the school. All this will allow them: to support each other, to respect each other, being sincere with each other.
others. To achieve a clear and shared objective by continuously seeking to improve the
teaching-learning process. Develop creativity and construction and dissemination
of knowledge inside and outside the classroom and above all to emphasize the
participation of students, parents, and other community entities.
All of them must be involved to achieve successful school management, and we
we refer to successful when it is achieved: Managing improvements in the infrastructures of
educational center, Analyze the teaching and learning problems together with the
other teachers, He has prestige as a teacher, They serve as guides for the
teaching staff of the institution, and they are involved in the improvement of the
teaching-learning conditions.
Achieving good management leads to the step of innovation, which refers to creating
something new within what is already established, to generate a change or improvement to
something that is not functioning correctly, this element is very important
inside a school because through innovation we can improve something that already
it is obsolete and not yielding the expected results, furthermore we can link it
with the research that will provide us a detailed analysis of the different
problems that the institution has and in the same way it will inform us about the
needs. From this analysis we will be able to take the innovations so that
functions will provide a general overview of all the school deficiencies, for
what we will know about where and why to innovate. If we take into account the
research as a starting point to generate both innovation and management
we will comply with the guidelines that it requires, we will ensure that all institutions
have a good performance, a good organization, and with it, the objectives will be achieved.
expected objectives always seeking to improve the educational quality of our
institution.
Hopkins and Reynolds mention that management is the way to act.
deliberate for the transformations of its own practices as a condition for
improving learning in students, if we analyze this concept well we notice that
focuses on the autonomy given to the teacher to improve their practices
through the implementation of new ways of teaching, to achieve an improvement in
the teaching-learning process.
In conclusion, in all the areas in which we develop, it is essential
count on leaders who allow us to achieve the proposed goals, especially in the
educational sector as it is essential in the process of societies. Leadership in
Educational management is an educational project that provides us with personal development.
collective of the organization. From these perspectives, we understand that it is there where
it rests on the important task of leaders, directors, teachers, students, parents,
community representatives, to achieve a school environment and a society where
impose respect, confrontation in a positive and constructive way, dialogue,
justice, equity, that lead to the unity of all entities in education with
the only purpose of strengthening and innovating the educational process in the institution.
