Challenges and Approaches in Educational Leadership

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................3
2. Nature of the leadership and their challenges........................................................................4
2.1. Challenge 1: The Assessment Gap..................................................................................4
2.2 Challenge 2: The Teaching Gap.......................................................................................4
2.3 Challenge 3: The Leadership Gap....................................................................................4
3. A rationale and theorised approach to the leadership challenges..........................................5
3.1 Conveying the Values of the Life....................................................................................5
3.2 Continuous learning, improvement and inquiry...............................................................5
3.3 Institutional Stewardship..................................................................................................6
4. A critical synopsis of relevant literature pertaining to the challenge.....................................6
4.1 The Activist Challenge.....................................................................................................6
4.2 The development Challenge.............................................................................................7
4.3 The transition challenge...................................................................................................7
4.4 The Creative challenge.....................................................................................................7
5. Overcoming the challenges in educational leadership...........................................................7
5.1 Promoting a compelling ‘why’.........................................................................................8
5.2 Building belief..................................................................................................................8
5.3 Defining critical roles.......................................................................................................9
6. Recommendation....................................................................................................................9
7. Conclusions..........................................................................................................................10
8. References............................................................................................................................11
Appendices:..............................................................................................................................12
Appendix 1: Challenges of Educational Leaderships..........................................................12
Appendix 2: Institutional Stewardship.................................................................................12

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1. Introduction
Educational leadership is a broad area of professional preparation which is open to
teachers, administrator and other workers in the educational industry. The primary goal of
this leadership to build up a relationship between the student and the teacher. Hence, it
ensures a successful education for any given community of the students. The superintendents
and principles of the educational centre in Australia are under pressure to increase the level
for academic achievement of the student. The constitutional act of Australian parliament
mandates the reporting of the students with the disaggregated by the proficiency of the
English language, socio-economic status and participation in special education. The
legislation of the Australian act 2001, The No Child Left Behind was eliminated the gap
between underrepresented minorities and white middle-class student.
The study will discuss the developments in several elements of the standard of
educational leadership. The challenges and issues help to enhance the prospect of the success
of a student. At the same time, it also impacts upon the environmental functions of an
educational place. There is three crucial areas of the educational leadership to draw the
management system of education. Furthermore, the study will reflect the difference between
transformational leadership and transactional leadership of education. The value of this
leadership and various approached that have taken by an educational organisation will be
discussed briefly.

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2. Nature of the leadership and their challenges
The development of the technology and embracement of public skills is a genuine
commitment in the era of 21st-century learning. The educational system has been changing
day by day, and the requirement of the moral values with the proper teaching methods is an
important objective for an educational organisation. There is three consideration of the
challenges for the educational leader to fostering 21st-century skills. The challenges are as
following:
2.1. Challenge 1: The Assessment Gap
The peoples differentiate the educational skill base on several common themes which
include teamwork, creativity, communication, problem-solving and critical thinking. An
education leader with lower commutation skill is creating an enormous gap between reality
and rhetoric (Livingstone, 2019). Effective communication skill includes oral and written
skill and technology to convey images, ideas, evidence. Moreover, there is a measurement
tool of the educational leader to collaborate the teamwork it tends to team or collaborative
environment on the basic of knowledge and literacy skill. The academic skills and content are
important but in insufficient condition to meet the academic criteria is a major issue of 21st
centuries educational system.
2.2 Challenge 2: The Teaching Gap
The conventional educational system is a wisdom for a teacher to face a challenging
academic stance. It is considered as a contrast between the administration and the students
with educational leaders. In the ethics of contemporary education, a student is recognised as a
customer who demanded immediate gratification from the educational organisation
(Alonderiene & Majauskaite, 2016). The gap between the parents and the teacher lead to
significant challenges for the organisation. The management of the educational firm performs
some remediation, confrontation and inconvenience that applies to an educational leader to
fill the teaching gap.
2.3 Challenge 3: The Leadership Gap
The educational leader is inadequate about the teaching practices and methods that are
used in the 21st century's learning system. The inconsistence curriculum, toxic gradation
system, infrequent feedback from the learners is the most significant problem faced by a
leader. The thinking capability as per the students and their parents collaborate with other