Contents

Your first step should be to examine the following list of contents to select the order you may wish to study the units. At the start of each unit, there is an introduction and a set of learning outcomes which should enable you to decide quite quickly whether the material is likely to be of value to you. However, please remember that the assignment and examinations will be based on the whole module.


Module 1: Self‑Development for Educational Leaders

Unit 1: School mission, values and objectives 6 hours
Unit 2: Styles of leadership and management 4 hours
Unit 3: Needs identification 6 hours
Unit 4: Job analysis 4 hours
Unit 5: Time management 4 hours

24 hours total

Units
This module is divided into five units.

Unit 1: School mission, values and objectives
In this unit you will learn why and how your school should identify its mission and its values, and how you may express these in terms of practical objectives.

Unit 2: Styles of leadership and management
Here you will identify various leadership and management styles and how each is likely to produce different results: this should enable you to reflect on your own approach to school leadership and how you may improve it.

Unit 3: Needs identification
In planning the development of your school and the activities which you organise there, it is important you recognise that many groups, in addition to your pupils, have expectations and needs. In this unit you will learn who these groups are and how you may recognise their needs.

Unit 4: Job analysis
The purpose of this unit is to enable you to analyse the jobs of those employed within your school, and to produce clear job descriptions which enable everyone to understand their own roles and tasks, and the relation­ships involved.

Unit 5: Time management
Time is the one resource we all have the same amount of, yet some people use it far better than others. Through this unit you will learn how to make the best use of your time as a school headteacher