This middle leadership training program assist assistant principals and head teachers to play a crucial role in leading excellence in teaching practice and student outcomes.

This Middle Leadership program is set in the context of awakening and acknowledging the role of middle leaders in our schools, university or educational system recognition that focuses on a range of skills including the less often studied inter-related concepts of instructional leadership, understanding how teachers learn and how change wisdom is central to the success of all our efforts.

Topics covered
Week 1
Meaning and purposes of middle leadership
Week 2
Leadership  theories and styles
Great Man Theory,
Trait Theory,
Behavioural Theories,
Contingency Theories,
Transactional Theories
Transformational Theories,
Distributed leadership theory
Leadership styles: Transformational, Autocratic, Authoritative, Pacesetting. Democratic, Coaching, Affiliative, Laissez-Faire etc.
Resources: Leadership theories PowerPoint presentation
Effectiveness of School leadership and management development in Cameroon paper by Dr. Ebot Ashu
Wisdom of the ants video and wisdom of the lion video
Assignment
Leadership  theory and leadership styles: Power point presentation
Week 3
Transactional, Transformational and Distributed Leadership in modern schools or organisation
Leadership Styles: Transformational, transactional, shared, servant, Charismatic,  democratic, coaching, affiliating, laisser faire,   Autocratic. ...
Resources: Effectiveness of School leadership and management development in Cameroon paper by Dr. Ebot Ashu
Week 4
Issues for deputies and middle leaders- Review an article about middle leadership,  strategies used by highly effective middle leaders
Resources:  Middle leaders paper; the role of middle manager. International secondary school; Continue professional development for middle leaders; What is a deputy head teacher video
Week 5
Team work and middle leadership. Review an article about team work and middle leadership. Understand, and apply in a reflective way, strategies for building sound working relationships and communication; strategies to promote self and team development.
Resources: Good team work and bad team work video
Wisdom of an ant and wisdom of a geese-how to improve team performance; Team success, Inspiring thoughts form nature
Week 6
Group discussion and feedback about middle maanagers: your ideas for your literature review and observation, who is  to be observed and will anybody be interviewed?
Week 7
What do we expect from the analysis of an observation of a school middle manager? Observation  as a method to understand the  roles and responsibilities of a  middle leader,  
Resources: Middle Manager video
What is the role of middle manager video
Leadership management and administrative role of a school leader by Dr. Ebot Ashu
In praise of middle manager
Week 8
Strategies for building and sustaining a learning community – meaning of  Learning community, How Can We Build a Successful Learning Community? Strategies for Creating a Mission-Driven Learning Community
Resources: Ryman 2009 learning community
Creating and sustaining effective learning community
Strategies for building an effective learning environment
Week 9
Departmental requirement for middle leaders development
Developing ' leaders' in the public services? The realities of management and for public managers.
Resources: Developing leaders in the middle video
Perception fo middle leaders development paper
Middle leadership paper
Week 10 Observe a middle leader and report what do we expect from the analysis of an observation?
Group discussion and feedback: your ideas for your literature review and observation, who is    to be observed and will anybody be interviewed?
Week 11 Guest Presentation  on Deputies and Middle Leadership
Week 12 Class discussion: What have we learned about deputies and middle managers?  What are the key issues?

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