Diploma in School Leadership

Description

School of Educators has taken an initiative by introducing a diploma programme on School Leadership for aspiring and practicing principals. It is a training programme that aims to prepare leaders in education. The School Leadership Programme is a first transformative diploma programme that will inculcate leadership skills in school principals so that they can exhibit excellent performance in managing and leading a school.

Diploma for Practicing & Aspiring Principals – A professional training program for school principals, Administrators, Coordinators and teachers

The School Leadership Program is a first transformative, Diploma program to inculcate school principals with leadership training and practical tools required to foster better performance of their teachers and students.

The program’s objective is to provide school principals with the skills and tools required to become the leaders needed to transform school education.

The School Leadership Program will train school principals to

1. Value their educational vocation and critical role in society
2. Become inspirational role models
3. Foster outstanding teacher performance
4. Expect much from each and every student
5. Provide tools for children to achieve at their full potential

School of Educators commitment to launch a principal training program was inspired by four factors:

1. There were no programs that specifically trained principals;
2. The difficulty of highly motivated teachers, who have sought extra training, to perform better due to the poor quality of management skills and commitment of principals;
3. The need for a support network of highly motivated, well-trained principals convinced that the school must play a key role in transforming society;
4. The availability of content and guidance from School of educators mentors for Schools, arguably one of the most effective principal training organizations in the world.

Purpose of Our Training Modules
It is widely recognized and agreed that one of the key factors influencing school effectiveness is the nature and quality of leadership exhibited by the school head.

This series of modules has been written to provide school heads and other school professionals with a source of practical ideas about ways in which they can become better educational leaders. The first two modules provide extensive theory on school leadership and existing structure of school education. The other series of modules provide practical skills along with useful resource materials for school professionals and other educational officials.

We also provide a lot of reference materials along with our modules

Who can be benefitted?
Our training modules have been designed for practicing school heads. We are also aiming on newly appointed school heads. At whatever career stage they may be, school heads know that there is always more to learn. Some aspirants of our training programme may still be teachers who aspire to become school heads; these materials are also of great use for them.

Leadership skill in education is also a need for many others involved in field of education, from Minister or Commissioner of Education, through to District Education Officers and their staff, school governors, advisors, coordinators, supervisors, deputy heads, chief education officers, teachers and even, parents and members of community. The training modules are for all who belong to any of these groups, and who are interested in improving their school performance or their own professional skill.

We hope that school principals, teachers, and other school professionals of different educational institutions will find these modules of use.

MODULE 1: Understanding School Leadership

Unit 1: Understanding Leadership Concepts and Theories
Unit 2: Understanding School Leadership
Unit 3: School as an Organisation
Unit 4: Principal Leadership
Unit 5: Teacher Leadership
Unit 6: Self-Assessment Exercise

MODULE 2: Understanding National Structure of Education

Unit 1: Educational Policies and Programmes
Unit 2: Common School System and Right to Education Act 2009
Unit 3: School Sub-Systems, Open Schooling and NCERT
Unit 4: School Boards and Affiliation Process
Unit 5: Educational Loans and Scholarships
Unit 6: Statistics in Education (DISE, STATE/DISTRICT REPORT CARDS, EDI, SEMIS)

MODULE 3: Academic Management

Unit 1: Exam Conduct and Management
Unit 2: Curriculum Development and Syllabus Bifurcation

MODULE 4: Personnel and Payroll Management

Unit 1: Staff Recruitment
Unit 2: Staff Development
Unit 3: Staff Motivation
Unit 4: Staff Appraisal
Unit 5: Staff Supervision and Discipline
Unit 6: Keeping Staff Records
Unit 7: Managing Meetings
Unit 8: Managing Conflict

MODULE 5: Curriculum and Resources Management

Unit 1: Establishing the Curriculum
Unit 2: Timetabling
Unit 3: Organizing resources to support the curriculum
Unit 4: Selecting and Managing Textbooks
Unit 5: Libraries, Media and Low cost teaching aids
Unit 6: Examinations, Testing and Record Keeping
Unit 7: Resource Maintenance
Unit 8: Finding Financial Resources

MODULE 6: Financial Management

Unit 1: Sources of School Funds
Unit 2: School Budgeting
Unit 3: Mobilizing Financial Resources
Unit 4: Basic Framework and mechanism of financial management
Unit 5: Expending and Accounting for School Funds
Unit 6: School Accounting and Auditing

MODULE 7: School Transportation Services

Unit 1: Transportation Services
Unit 2: Planning Considerations
Unit 3: Routing and Scheduling
Unit 4: Inspection and Maintenance
Unit 5: Utilization and Evaluation of Transportation Services
Unit 6: Standards and Specifications

MODULE 8: Purchasing, Warehousing and Distribution

Unit 1: Purchasing
Unit 2: Warehousing
Unit 3: Distribution

MODULE 9: Soft Skill Development

Unit 1: Communication Skill
Unit 2: Team Development
Unit 3: Emotional Intelligence/Optimism
Unit 4: Stress Management
Unit 5: Time Management
Unit 6: Conflict Management
Unit 7: Decision Making and Problem Solving
Unit 8: Life Long Learning and Information Management Skill
Unit 9: Entrepreneur Skill
Unit 10: Leadership Skill

MODULE 10: Monitoring School Effectiveness

Unit 1: Indicators and Characteristics of School Effectiveness
Unit 2: The Rationale for Evaluation
Unit 3: Evaluation Techniques
Unit 4: Planning a Programme of Evaluation
Unit 5: Using Evaluation Findings

MODULE 11: The Governance of School

Unit 1: Defining the parameters of School Governance
Unit 2: Legal basis of school governance
Unit 3: School Managers and Governing Bodies
Unit 4: Relationship between Schools and Other Agencies
Unit 5: Partner in School Management
Unit 6: Right to Information Act and School
Resources- Cases on Right to Information Act

MODULE 12: Auxiliary Services in Schools

Unit 1: School Safety and Security Services
Unit 2: Food Services
Unit 3: Custodian Services
Unit 4: Community Use of School Services
Unit 5: Sale of School Services

Other Details :

Minimum Duration: 1 Year
Maximum Duration: 1 year 4 Months
Course Fee: Rs. 14,000
Minimum Age: No bar
Maximum Age: No bar

Eligibility:
Graduate

Programme Duration
The course for ‘School Leadership’ will be transacted in 8 Months (16 Modules to be covered)
Extension can be given upto the period of 4 months (Only in special cases)
Date of joining- You can join the course in any month

Programme Structure

Course Process
Students will have their personal tutors who will guide them through course material. Students can make use of e-mail to correspond with tutors and all students will have the facility to interact with the tutors through the discussion forum and chat facility on our website. The course has 16 modules that have to be covered within 8 month duration. You can join the distance learning course in any month and there will be no specific beginning of the academic year. The 8-month duration will be counted from the date you have joined the course.

Mode of Course
The distance course will have two mode depending on the suitability of the applicants:

Postal
Study materials will be couriered to you at your residential address. Personal tutors will be allotted to guide you through the course content. You can correspond with your tutor through email or chat facility at fixed intervals. Upon enrolling, you will be allotted a personal tutor, whom you may contact (through fax, or E-mail: [email protected]) when require any assistance.

Online
You can download the study material online from our website. Personal tutors will be allotted for online mode too. You can correspond with your tutor through email or chat facility at fixed intervals. Upon enrolling, you will be allotted a personal tutor, whom you may contact (through fax, or E-mail: [email protected]) when require any assistance.
The course content, eligibility, criteria and evaluation method will remain same for both the postal and online course.

Evaluation
The course work will be assessed through Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation and it will be based on different criteria and techniques. It would provide enough feedback and space for improvement. Scheme of Evaluation will involve assessment on the basis of Assignments and Test Papers.

At the end of each module, students will be required to submit an assignment that will be subsequently evaluated and graded. The assignments have to be submitted latest by the due dates. Once you have submitted your assignment, your work will be assessed and graded. Your grades will be sent to your tutor, who will have the responsibility of notifying you of your grades (through e-mail as well as post) along with his/her personal comments on your work. There will be eight assignments-one assignment for 2 modules. Students can submit their assignments through e-mail. There will be three test papers at the end of the course. Once you have completed all eight assignments and three test papers, you will be awarded your diploma in school leadership that will reflect an average of all assignments grades and test grades. You will be given your overall grade. The Diploma Certificate in School Leadership will be issued within one month after course completion to the students who will successfully complete the course and have a pass grade in both test papers.

Hands on Training
We also conduct workshops and provide professional exposures to students during the course session in order to impart them hands on training.