Leadership and Management in Education

This article discusses the importance of leadership and management in education and how it affects student learning and school success. It explores different leadership styles and their impact on creating a positive learning environment. The article also provides resources and strategies for developing leadership skills in the education field.

Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management is all about to getting all individual as by comprehends the
vision and believe by which accomplishment of goals and objectives become clearer and
transparent (Adams, 2018). Leadership is all about the ability to get influence, encourage and
motivate other individual’s that make direct and huge contribution towards organisational
success and development. Management is a process that is related to control and monitor various
set of entities by which attainment of goals and target become easier and flexible. It is an
essential prospect under which healthy services is delivered and it is pertained with sustained
vision and mission that is communicated with the parallel involvement of strategic development.
In this people get motivated by which ability to negotiate with resources by which standardised
outcome is achieved within timely manner. The leader and manager get worked together in order
to intensify the strength and working capabilities so that rate of performance and its productivity
is increases in ordinate mode. Leader is basically go-getter and drive strategies and policy on the
other hand manager are always being task and role oriented under which basic strength get
strengthens and weaknesses get controlled. The leader and manager within an organisational
context work together in a collaborative manner for the purpose of deriving benefits in terms of
attaining growth and success in the long run. The report below reflects the reflection of
leadership and management that promotes overall experiences.
MAIN BODY
The leadership and management collectively explore the psychological and sociological
perspective under which holistic findings as inside and outside the workplace that is processed in
formalised manner. An integrated psychological prospect proposed effectiveness among leader
and manager by which direct influence is processed in a form of private, public and personal
basis (Adler and Laasch, 2020). It is actually a process in which leader has influenced the other
individual’s by which clear focus is maintain to change the working behaviour and learning
aspect by which persuasiveness of goals is processed with profound mode. In this subordinate
has worked in pleasant manner in which working area as well as direct influence is programmed.
It processed tangible outcomes by which fundamentals practices and components are addressed
systematically. Leadership is occurred in a variety framework that might be processed in
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informal or formal way. In this each individual get receive about job assignment that maintains
sustained lead along with this superior supervision is altered successfully.
Leadership is basically an informal process that usually involves various processes under
which direct influence is induced in the working attitude and behaviour. It eventually assists
teachers to maintain lead in each and every situation so that effectual learning and its
presentation is processed with clarity (Bhanot, 2018). On the other hand management assist to
develop and design formal relationship as in this one individual is formalised towards the
sanctioned actions is processed that induces higher level of transparency in work. The
administration and management is basically used to rationale the process by which smooth as
well as efficient flow of work is addressed. It is also be used to define sustained featured and
function by which learning is programmed as with super visionary role. In this perfect role and
responsibility is addressed that usually designed to induce fair treatment that perpetuate the
modified form of norms and actions (Bush, 2018). It make quick change and respond by which
formal setting is induced by which suitable lead is attained while accomplish task and goals over
stipulated period of time.
A basic concept of leadership is organised in relative basis as in this better level of
investigation and focus is maintained addressed common characteristics and values. It assist me
to introduce quick change in systematic manner by which quick and long term values that is
either personal or professional get developed (Bush, 2019). For this it is essential that leader is as
like extrovert, talkative, intelligent, original, athletic and dominant by which healthy
modification is implemented. It promotes individual finding probability and ability that seems to
remote the change in pertinent trait. It ultimately brings suitable changes under which adequate
concern is maintained to bring fruitful relationship and effectual concern about teaching and
learning.
In this leader power is having powerful impact as instead of maintaining comfort
focusing of each individual student and its characteristics it is developed to turn the attention and
a suitable way to maintain lead in terms of power. The basic logic is to involve influential ability
by which sustained potential is involved by which better understanding is developed so that
effectual lead is developed (Bush, 2019). It is used to vary considerably for instance, leader has a
lot of individual as a follower and having a power to offer rewards and threaten the punishment
as well due to coercive power. It is the most controlled ability as with this I have make obvious
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decision and aid to anoint formal authority by which legitimate power is induced that is more
influential and productive (Bell and Middlewood, 2019). As a teacher assistant I have make
supportive usage of referent power as it allows other to get followed me strongly as it also helps
other to admire. I have brings that charisma in my working style and with this I have take several
decision as per availability of situation and of its demand as well. In this I have teach the
students clearly and uses various power by which student get easily connect with me and pertain
various changes as per required and demand. It simply helps to reduce all complexities and
redundancy within student by which clear communication and understanding is processed with
students and other colleagues as well.
In addition behaviour of an individual is required to be processed with some insight as in
this various prospect of research is developed in which systematic study is developed by
maintaining clear focus on the efficient usage of power (Connolly, James and Fertig, 2019). In
support of this behaviour I get relate myself with respondent situations and offered various
solution on the basis of its effective and efficient contribution. In this sufficient focus is
developed towards the structural initiation that makes completion of assignment, project and
lectures of time and processed with support of division of work that induce clarity about task and
actions that is done by an individual. It is always be considerate that leader maintain higher focus
in task accomplishment that is more productive rather than the one who has lower task oriented
behaviour and style. For this I have try to be a leader who maintain focus to demonstrate
relationship oriented behaviour that assist me to distinguish balanced relationship with
subordinates and students. It induce empirical evidences by which task completion is supported
with the behaviour and logic of leaders as it encourage higher level of alteration in terms of task
and behavioural oriented actions.
As an educational leader it plays an essential and pivotal role that has direct impact over
climate, reputation, attitude and attention towards school working (Daniëls, Hondeghem and
Dochy, 2019). It assists to develop cornerstone the learning communities by which suitable
growth and function is enhanced. To introduce successful leadership it must get incubators with
the learning and adequate place at where students not only get their education but also nurtured,
motivate and encourage getting over from various challenges (Gupta, Kulkarni and Khatri,
2018). The leadership styles at school basically underpinned poor and better achievement of
goals of an educational system. As if school get lack of direction and foundation or as if learning
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get compromised that it has direct impact over students learning and teaching (Golensky and
Hager, 2020). It is also be defined that leadership brings classroom instruction that has changes
the mindset and ability of student to learn and understand various prospect in adequate mode. To
be a successful leader as with parallel of teaching assistant balanced level of usage and
dependencies of traits, skills, strategies and belief is induce with better effectiveness as it get
shared with the leaders of schools.
For this I have understand the importance of building community as in this sufficient
reciprocal of family and community is getting partnership which leverage the cultivate, culturally
and caring by which school communities get more responsive (Hallinger and Hammad, 2019).
To build a essential network it is required that leader must be more visible by which sustained
level of trust and belief get developed in which better sense of connectivity and transparency is
shared as with the purpose of community members, students, staff and parents. At higher level of
studies teacher are having higher willing to try and design various strategies by which leader
trust is getting supported, students get motivated and also get connect with school and it is only
due to the collective trust and believe that is maintained with teachers. In addition families also
be more supportive as in this trusty relationship is developed in between teacher, student and
families as well.
Empower teacher and cultivate leadership skills as school is not run by one man as it
can’t be processed alone rather than this it is required that it must fully respondent with support
of staff and teacher that furthermore encourage with continuous learning and development. It
brings continuous learning, development perhaps more necessary prospect of leader (Hallinger,
2019). The students get influenced various opportunities as in this autonomy that is controlled
with support of career advancement. They induce productiveness by which suitable level of
engagement is inducing as by promoting the statistics actively. As by providing professional
development and career opportunities to the teachers it is essential that adequate level of
environment is developed in which teachers are able to make different experiment, leading and
experimenting principles that ensure positive repercussions as in support of students. The
effectual utilisation of data and resources produces successful leader as it include standardised
school based assignments that drive continuous advancement and improvements by which
decision making of students is expressed as with the promotion of culturally and equitable
responsiveness (Hallinger, 2020). The leader is able to leverage strategic decision by which
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higher benefits is offered to students. It draws effective compelling as it promotes collaborative
inquiry among teachers assistant.
Leaders are visionary through which they get unite with team and get planned by which
vision and mission of school articulated with clarity. The effective head teachers provide
appropriate sense of direction that get prioritise on the basis of focused staff as it is vital to divert
as it has direct impact over various initiative in which student working also promoted. It create
inclusive learning environment and collaborative as it provide better accessibility to students by
which flexible learning is developed by offering suitable path to achieve educational goal and it
is developed with the efficient sense of belongingness. It facilitates leading and systematic
change that furthermore lead faculty as new practices and attitude is accepted that bring strong
and positive culture (Hassi, 2019).
There are various traits model and theory of understanding and building leadership as with
prospect of both contextual and individual. Heroic leadership is a pinnacle form of leadership
and conducted on the basis of transformed and enlightened leader that seeks inevitability (Jones,
2018). Charismatic is a style under which leader get followed by more of the individual’s so that
rate of productiveness is increases on continuous basis. Open leadership is a set of practice in
which mobilised uses of community is undertaken by which effectual problem get shared and
resolved within the assigned or allotted period of time. It empower an individual to collaborate
with inclusiveness under which individual get empower and guided other with the following of
all standardised principles. Authentic leadership defines an approach that is used to emphasis
and builds legitimacy by which honest relationship is developed with followers as that build
ethical foundation. Ethical leadership state direct respect that is given and received by a leader
on the basis of values, ethics and belief that is processed with support of dignity and
fundamentals right. It processed with the support of basic concepts as like trust, consideration,
charisma, honesty and fairness (Megheirkouni, 2018). Constructive leadership is a form
oversees as per the perfect representation under which balanced level of favouritism is processed
and it is undertaken by effective representatives.
Knott and Scraggs model of reflection: It is a practice that defines key learning and
development that is processed on a social work course. As a teacher assistant I have believed that
various course works is induced within the teaching or by proving adequate lectures to the
students as in order to advance learning and development. Leadership and management is an
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essential prospect in this as it assists to various tools that are applied as in form of theory and
traits. I get related more with charismatic style of leadership as in this I make relative changes as
per the ongoing changes and situation that is changes on the basis of requirement and demand of
corresponding condition. It is essential that students get relate and connect with the study
material and course that is represented by teacher and in this balanced level of alternation is
induced as per suitability. Thus it assists me to make strong interrelationship with the students
that furthermore enhance and advance working culture and functions so that productive and
profitable amount of change is addressed in systematic manner (Nayani and et. al., 2018). It
brings more calmness and persuasiveness within me so that I could drive its convictions as well
as commitment. It is also known as transformational leadership in which authority is drives from
the contrast of legal and traditional authority. It induces prominent characteristic in me as like
strong communication, balanced level of maturity, humility, compassion, confidence, positive
body gesture and language, listening and communicative skills and supreme level of confidence.
It is analysed from the above representation that in a school learning various prospect is
directed as it is related to study environment, teacher behaviour and attitude, level of engagement
and involvement of students, interrelationship with working staff and subordinates. In this I have
believed that education is only getting processed as per relation to productive learning by which
productive and profitable amount of modification is altered. It bring sustained level of benefits
by which ability to retain and manage the working aspect is more essential as in this student get
easily related themselves with the learning and teaching aspect. The working practices of mine
are quite more attentive and clear in which it is transparent within the teaching as I believed that
each students get learned about various aspect (Podsakoff and Podsakoff, 2019). I always
maintain focus about collective learning by which students easily learn every concept in easiest
manner and without any sort of issues learning is processed with easiness and appropriate
balance. There are few alternative views as well in which I have tries to looking forward about
other teachers and their style. In this I acknowledge that productive learning is processed by
taking on time lessons and test by which memory of students get sharper and in this it is easy for
student to generate mode ideas and thoughts. In this new concept get learned with support of real
life examples so that students learning become more transparent.
I have taken some actions and that is completely dependent on the loopholes that are
presented in my overall personality. I have learned it by analysing the gap that is developed in
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between me and student that increases the level of lack of understanding. I have responded more
composed and calmness towards each situation and first try to analyse that and then interpret as
per requirement after that numerous range of solution is offered to resolve the ration of
complexity. In this my working experience aid to develop better belief in myself and also
changes my attitude positively by which rate of productiveness is increases in repetitive basis.
The socio cultural theory is even more useful as it is an emerging theory that is processed in
relation to psychology by which effectual contribution is developed as it makes development of
each individual in sustained mode. It reduces overall stress and interrelation that is developed in
between culture and other people. For instance, in one culture of a school teacher teaches to get
play with toys and on the other hand also encourages getting play outside. In this teacher as well
as children get adapts both cultures that teach them better performances. In relation to the
understanding with social construction balanced level of understanding is processed as by
evolving it with sustained contribution. The leadership is basically an interactive web that is
persuading with followers, language, context, culture, tools and symbol (Wills, 2019).
There are four leadership themes as directional leadership in which leader has developed
a vision that is shared clearly in order to enhance rate of effective communication. As it is used
to drive clear purpose under which helpful and bright ideas and thinking is developed that
collectively determine various things that is pushed forward systematically. It assists the team
workers or subordinates to perform the task and actions as per expectation. The major of this
leadership is to develop a vision and mission that is followed by all so that attainment of
standardised changes is attained in productive manner. Collaborative leadership is a practice that
is selected and chosen by management in order to bring clear aim within executive, staff and
student by which collective and group working is addressed which is processed all together. In
this information is shared organically in which balanced responsibility is processed within whole
school by which functional and organisational boundaries get considered (Zuraik and Kelly,
2019). It bring effective results under which internal and external working standards is invested
in order to build strong relationship by which rate of conflicts get reduced and shared in
controlled mode.
Empowering leadership is an approach that directly refers to a process in which equal
values get shared and allocate on the basis prospect on autonomy as well as balanced
responsibilities under which specific set of attitude is changes as by following basic
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responsibilities (Podsakoff and Podsakoff, 2019). In this meaningful work is fostered as by
participating with confidence and making required decision making. Pedagogical leadership is
usually supported with prospect of learning and teaching as with the parallel inducement of
instruction. It is processed with the key role of curriculum as in which various roles are
implementing while encompassing it with various roles and responsibilities in learning manner
(Hassi, 2019).
Being the teacher assistant, I leveraged my skills and abilities to demonstrate them in a
manner such that the learners can be benefitted from it. In this relation, I have acknowledged that
I make use of transformational leadership style in order to create an atmosphere of learning
within the class for the students. This allows me to create a scenario whereby the learners are
eager to participate in the learning process as it allows them to enhance their skills and
competences in an effectual manner (Gupta, Kulkarni and Khatri, 2018). In this relation, it has
further been identified that the impartment of knowledge within the class by me leads to the
elevation of existent knowledge of the learners, thereby helping them in carrying out the process
of personal and professional development. In the classroom, I imparted knowledge of various
strategic management models to the learners so that they can use this knowledge for future
course of time. The frameworks and models taught by me mainly included SWOT and PESTLE
analysis. The former is an internal analysis framework while the latter is an external analysis
framework. These frameworks are mainly exploited by an individual to gain knowledge of the
intrinsic and extrinsic parts of an entity (Hallinger and Hammad, 2019). By gaining knowledge
of these models, the learners can enhance their employability and thereby gain access to a
reputed firm in the future course of time.
Further, it was revealed by me in the class to the learners that Johari’s Window is a
personality test which is mainly taken by an individual to ascertain the type of personality that is
held by the person. This is one of the most effective tests used in the process of reflection to gain
an insight into the personality of an individual and thereby determine the gaps in one’s skills,
knowledge and competences (Daniëls, Hondeghem and Dochy, 2019). As a teacher assistant, I
have always believed in adopting strategies, techniques and methods that have the potential to
enhance the capabilities of my learners and engage them in the process of continuous
professional learning.
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CONCLUSION
On the basis of above discussion, it can be comprehensively stated that leadership and
management are the pillars on which the growth as well as development of a company is based.
In this relation, it has been determined that leadership drives the performance of the employees
in a way such that the workforce can work towards the upliftment of the corporation in the long
run. With reference to this, management is defined as the force which motivates the employees
to perform to the full of their potential. Leadership and management act as the binding forces
with the help of which an organisation is able to accomplish its goal and objectives and attain
success in the future course of time. Besides this, leadership is mainly concerned with the ability
of leading the tasks and activities in a manner such that positive outcomes can be obtained in the
long term.
Management is acknowledged to be a comprehensive process which encompasses
controlling as well as maintenance of the various activities and tasks. This makes it flexible as
well as easy for entity to attain the objective and goal in predefined course of time. With respect
to a school, it can be said that the role of a leader and manager is played by a teacher and teacher
assistant. In this relation, it is identified that a teacher assistant provides assistance to the teacher
in carrying out the teaching process in a manner such that the learners effectively execute the
process of learning in a comprehensive manner. The leader and manager mainly work in a
collaborative manner for the purpose of intensifying the strengths as well as working capabilities
of the employees. This leads to the enhancement of performance and productivity levels of the
individuals. In the learning context, it is acknowledged that the effective leadership and
management demonstrated by the teacher assistant help in enriching the learning process for the
learners so that they can carry out comprehensive personal and professional development process
in the long run.
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