Leaders and Leadership in Educational Contexts

Running head: LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS
Leaders and leadership in educational contexts
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Introduction
The principal leadership and its impact on the engagement and the achievement of the
students in the school have been documented well over the past decades. The connection and the
link among the level of engagement of the principal in the practice of effective leadership and
towards the meeting of the measure of accountability has been unexplored through most of the
past decades. The context of school leadership has the tendency to become priority towards the
agenda of the educational policies in the international platform (Louis, Murphy & Smylie, 2016).
The leadership practices in the school management furthermore play a key role in the
improvement of the outcomes of the school by the influencing of the capacities and the
motivation of the teachers and the students of the school enhancing the environment and the
climate of the school. Effective leadership in school is essential for the improvement of the
efficiency and the equity of the schooling. With the trend of adaptation of the education systems
towards the requirement of the contemporary society, the expectations for the school and the
leaders of the school are altering (Romay, Magee & Slater, 2016). The assignment report
demonstrates the application of the concepts related to the educational leadership and
management for the enhancement of the management of the school in Maldives. The assignment
illustrates the leadership skills and the management techniques that need to be acquired and
applied by the principal of a government school in Maldives for running the school effectively.
Importance of leadership for school management
Over the last few decades the Maldives has witnessed significant improvements towards
the access to the education. Though there lie still many challenges impending the quality of
education in the country of South Asia. The assignment report aims to provide an insight to the

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issues within the education system and the school of Maldives and the importance of the skills of
the leadership of the principal towards the effective management in managing the school.
Multiple studies and the articles by the scholars reported the importance and the
effectiveness of the leadership skills in the school as one of the pivotal factor towards the success
of the school (Knapp et al., 2014). Aiming on the leadership distribution and the improvement
chances of the education in the school, many of the research studies and the literature depicts the
need for the clear and the effective leadership together with strong and evident skills to nurture
successful students. There lies an increasing range of evidences relating to the contribution of
school leadership to the outcomes of the students of the school.
Researches has furthermore depicted that the leaders of the school which includes the
principal, the educational manager and the teachers of the school makes a difference in the
outcomes of the performance of the students in the school in case of granting autonomy towards
making important decisions. Some of the major factors in connection to the essentiality of the
leadership skills by the leaders of the school for the management of the educational leadership
are as follows.
The traits and the factors related to the school leadership are important after the quality of
teaching since it serves as an influence on the learning of the pupil of the school. Furthermore
all the successful leaders tend to draw over the same factors of the basic leadership practices
(Godfrey, 2016). The leaders of the school aim towards the improvement of the teaching and
learning and by the influence of the motivation, commitment and the working conditions of the
staff.

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The government of Maldives is encouraging the principal of the best school of the
country towards improvement of the skills to promote equity in the quality of the education in
the school.
A major study by the government of the country depicted the importance of the
leadership targeting the responsibilities and the extent to which the principal of the school serves
as the main leader towards managing the school. The importance of the skills of leadership and
management generally provide the basis for the involvement and the building of the education. A
more systematic approaches towards the development of the requisite skills for the assumption of
leadership and the roles of the management have been useful (Stoll, 2015). It is thus essential to
have a systematic approach towards the development if the skills for the assumption of the
leadership and the management roles. The role of the leaders and their skills towards the
development of careers of the students and the improvement in the school has thus been one of
the most important factors targeting the responsibility for the improvement of the school
management.
Theoretical approaches
There has bene rising apprehension that the school leadership and its skills are extremely
essential variable that tends to generate some sort of differences in the school. Several of the
studies have denoted some of the positive growth and the indirect effect of the school leaders and
the skills of the management and leadership of the principal towards the outcomes on the
students in the school.
Researchers have discussed a wide number of leadership patterns and designs in
connection to the management of the educational knowledge and the school. There lies a vivid