Leadership roles and the Cloud in education
-
Upload
karl-donert -
Category
Education
-
view
81 -
download
0
Transcript of Leadership roles and the Cloud in education
Karl Donert, Director: Innovative Learning Network [email protected]
Leadership Perspectives
School on the Cloud WG1 meeting, Lithuania, December 15-17 2014
With leadership, Cloud-based education might look like this…
Five Levels of Educational Leadership
• Leaders at individual practitioner level
• Leaders in Middle management
• Leaders in Senior management
• Governance
• Systemic wide leadership
March 2011
4
GOVERNANCE ROLE
• Governance in education refers to the means
by which education institutions are formally
organized and managed
• Governance is the way in which
organisations are operated
• Involves a strategy – control – accountability
performance cycle
• Governance structures vary across the world
What is leadership? in terms of the Cloud in education
• Write down what is the role of leaders concerning the Cloud in education. What is the purpose of leadership?
• Describe what leaders (in the 5 different levels) should do in terms of enabling the Cloud in education • Leaders at individual practitioner level
• Leaders in Middle management• Leaders in Senior management• Governance• Systemic wide leadership
Leadership is about …
• Influencing others
• Power
• Relationships
• Communication
• Respect
• Trust
• Meeting Expectations
• Politically aware
• Advocacy
• Challenge and conflict
A developing modelICT enablers
Improved outcomes
ICT resources
ICT used effectively in
classrooms for learning
ICT deployed
appropriately
Good ICT learning
opportunities
Increased
attainment in ICT
Improved learning
ICT resources
General teaching
ICT teaching
General leadership
ICT leadership
Source: SAND report Becta
*Being clear about Strategic
LeadershipIt is not about:
telling you how to do it
learning ICT skills
writing long reports
getting technical advice on the ‘best’ computer, network, laptop, PDA, wires, routers etc.
particular Cloud systems
technology
It should be about
creating a vision for your organisation
having information, time and space to review and develop your vision
evaluating where you are now
sharing good practice
understanding the issues for ICT
challenging thinking about current and future ICT
thinking long-term, and seeing short-term solutions
Strategic Leadership in ICT (SLICT) Model