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| 6 Categories of Leadership |
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-Instructional
-Transformational
-Moral
-Particpative
-Contingency
-Managerial |
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| Focuses on instruction and behaviors of teachers as they engage in activities affecting students |
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| Transformational Leadership |
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| Inspires teachers to do more than what is asked |
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| Similar to transformational, focus on values and ethics, mission driven |
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| Group based leadership, democratic involvement |
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| There is no "one best way", "it all depends" - Fred Fielder |
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| Focus on day to day approach, business based approach |
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| Qualities of a great leader... |
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1. Trustworthy (#1 characteristic)
2. Empathy
3. Poise
4. Sense of humor
5. Professional
6. Humber
7. Fair Consistent |
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| Emotional Intelligence (EQ) |
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Being able to read others through body language, matched with the the ability to empathetic towards the needs of others
-Biggest key to effective leadership
-Responding instead of reacting |
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-Authoritarian (controlling)
-Democratic (subordinates and part of the process)
-Laissez-Faire ("let it be") - hands off leadership
SUBORDINATES PREFER DEMOCRATIC |
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-Initiating Structure (task orientation) theory X
-Considerations (concern for people ) - Theory Y
-BEST LEADERS WERE HIGH IN BOTH! |
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| -Production centered (X) and Employee Centered (Y) |
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| Contingency Theory (Least Preferred Co-worker Scale) |
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-High PLC score (leader has the goal of maintaining personal relationship w
-Low PLC Score (goal driven) task oriented
-you can be successful with either scores depending on situational factors |
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| A leader's role is to help employees during the journey to arrive at the intended destination |
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| Leadership Grid Styles (Blake and Mouton) |
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-Two dimensions of leader orientation (X and Y)
-9.9 is considered ideal management style (high in task orientation and personal relationships) |
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| Situational Leadership Styles (Hersey and Blanchard) |
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Two key leadership behaviors...
- Task behavior
- Relationship behavior
Situational factor is maturity (job and psychological maturity) |
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| Vertical Dyad Linage Model |
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Focuses on relationship between leader and each subordinate
-"In-group" and "out-group" |
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| Reciprocal Influence Theory |
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| The leader is affected by the actions of the subordinates (similar to contigency) |
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| Substitutes for Leadership |
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| In some situations, leadership is unnecessary, if everyone is doing their thing, no need for heroes! |
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| Transactional/Transformational - Bernard Bass |
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-Transactional - "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours"
-Transformational - the ability to motivate others to do more than expected |
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| Decision Making Model - Peter Drucker |
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| MOST IMPORTANT MODEL - 6 steps |
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| Assumption that is a rational process, with best possible scenarios |
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| Behavioral Decision Making Model |
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| Bounded Rationality - leader wants to make best decision but normally settles for less than the optimal |
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| Form of bounded rationality,, in in which ones chooses the first alternative that satisfies minimal standards without looking at all possibilities |
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| Retrospective Rationality |
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| When decision makers devote considerable energy to justify decisions that they have already made |
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| Grabbing onto solutions before looking at research. A collection of solutions looking to be matched with a problem |
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| When in-group pressures lead to a deterioration in mental efficiency, poor testing of reality and lax moral judgement |
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| How do you avoid GroupThink? |
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-have diverse points of view
-Assign policy - planning mission to a group
-Avoid organizational inbreeding |
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| Groups make decisions more risky than individuals do... |
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| 2 Site-based Decision Making Techniques |
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-Brainstorming
-Delphi Technique |
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| Types of nonverbal communication |
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-Kinesis - body language or clothes
-Paralanguage - Voice qualities
-Proxemics - Space and proximity
-Chronemics - determination and definitions of time |
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Lower to higher
- Tends to be more filtered |
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| How to improve upward communication |
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1. Employee meetings
2. Open door policy (walk around and talk)
3. Employee Letters
4. Participation in social groups |
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Something you shouldn't ignore
-Secretaries usually lead the grapevine |
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-Gatekeepers - control information
-Liasons - connects to two or more cliques
-Bridge - memeber of one clique and links it with another cliuque
-Isolate - few communications with the rest of the system (MAKE THEM YOUR FRIENDS) |
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| Barriers to communication |
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-Frames of reference
-Information overload |
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| How to overcome barriers to communication? |
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-Repetition
-Empathy
-Listening (first step is to shut up) |
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| Games People Play - I'm OK, You're Ok |
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| Transactions that are devoid of game playing and expoitation of poele |
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- Long range planning
- S (strength)W (weaknesses), O (opportunities)T (threats) |
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| Does not mention "education" |
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| States all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government or prohibited to the states by the Constitution |
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| Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution |
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| Gives congress the power to tax for the general good and for broad social purposes |
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| Current US Secretary of Education |
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| Current State (FL) Education Commissioner |
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| Eric Smith (or at least was) |
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| No Child Left Behind of 2001 |
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| National Defense Education Act (1958) |
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| Due to Sputnik, the act was meant to acquire more (and better) teachers. |
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The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (1975)
Individuals with Disabilities Educaiton Act(1990) |
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| The call for excellence... |
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| A Nation at Risk (which started the accountability era) |
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| Florida Hierarchy of Education |
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-Governor (Rick Scott) has veto powers in matters of education
-State Legislatures - has plenary power (come up with educational policy) |
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