Week 1 Forum Discussion: I thought I might discuss one of the key components of Educational Leadership and share with you an example of how it has been used. The key component that I would like to discuss is strategic planning. Ten years ago when interactive whiteboards were being introduced to schools, our Educational Leader at the time saw the huge potential of these resources in terms of student learning and teaching pedagogy transformation. One board was initially purchased for teachers to view. This sparked an interest amongst teachers and student. Several other boards were then purchased and strategically placed in a range of classrooms across different faculty areas and year levels. Teachers who wanted to use the boards then negotiated times to book the rooms to use the technology. This strategic planning increased the motivation of teachers to use the technology and then request a board in their own classroom. If the Educational Leader had simply purchased multiple boards, installed them in teachers’ classrooms and said, “Here is a tool, use it”, the degree to which the boards would have been used would have been less. Our Educational Leader then continued with strategic planning to create a school with the most interactive whiteboards in the Southern Hemisphere.
I thought I might discuss one of the key components of Educational Leadership and share with you an example of how it has been used. The key component that I would like to discuss is strategic planning. Ten years ago when interactive whiteboards were being introduced to schools, our Educational Leader at the time saw the huge potential of these resources in terms of student learning and teaching pedagogy transformation. One board was initially purchased for teachers to view. This sparked an interest amongst teachers and student. Several other boards were then purchased and strategically placed in a range of classrooms across different faculty areas and year levels. Teachers who wanted to use the boards then negotiated times to book the rooms to use the technology. This strategic planning increased the motivation of teachers to use the technology and then request a board in their own classroom. If the Educational Leader had simply purchased multiple boards, installed them in teachers’ classrooms and said, “Here is a tool, use it”, the degree to which the boards would have been used would have been less. Our Educational Leader then continued with strategic planning to create a school with the most interactive whiteboards in the Southern Hemisphere.
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