Reflection For Leadership

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Reflection for Leadership for Today 's Schools
After completing all of your coursework, what jumps out as having a significant impact on your learning?
This course was very informative, inspiring and thought provoking. I did a masters in Educational Leadership in the United States. That course never provided me with the information that I currently received. I was never exposed to Transformation, Transactional Leadership and Servant Leadership. The focus was only on Instructional Leadership.
In retrospect, I believe my professors wanted to prepare me to be effective in my role as a building leader without being tied up with “unnecessary” information. However, I believe that the knowledge of the other frameworks of leadership can help me to be a better instructional leader. I can move around the different perspectives when I am handling different situations.
In what ways did you increase the depth and breadth of your knowledge related to leadership?
My depth of knowledge has increased because I like the focus on being a change agent. This focus frees me from the fear of having to only conform to the rules and regulations to be successful and adds the dimension of conform but constantly ask the question what more can I do as a leader to foster positive …show more content…

This course has given me the ability to work along with others to develop a vision, mission and strategic plan to conquer issues affecting any school that I may be called to serve. The title of this course is called “Leadership for today’s schools.” However I would like to rename it “Leadership for today and future schools.” Why am I proposing a name change? This course has forced me to look into the future. As a leader in today’s schools I need to see what is happening in my community that can impact what is expected for students to learn and know for the

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