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Contemporary Issues in Educational Leadership - EDST5461

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of Education

Course Outline: School of Education Course Outlines

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Enrolment in one of the following Education programs 1970, 2354, 2359, 7960, 8910, 8926, or 8960

CSS Contribution Charge: 1* (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Leaders of educational organisations are constantly confronted with many different challenges. For example, currently there a number of pressing issues confronting leaders including new technologies, national curriculum and assessment, improvement of student outcomes and development of professional learning as well as the usual legal and financial matters. This course is designed to assist aspiring and practicing educational leaders to address these issues by extending their knowledge and understanding of relevant theory, research and practice in these areas.

The course consists of four modules. For Summer 2009/10 the modules are:
'National Curriculum and Assessment',
'Leading with Technology in Education',
'School Accountability and Managing Budgets',
'Leading and Informing Improvement: Evaluating Quality and Equity in Student Outcomes'.

Modules may be completed individually as separate professional development courses or completed concurrently as an elective course contributing to the Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership or Master's of Educational Leadership.


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