I must say this book "The Technology's Director's guide to Leadership" is a must for any online instruction course the author explain the information in a cleaver but easy to read manner. In chapter 3 we go along with Max as he takes his leadership class with professor Sensei and learn what it takes to become an effective leader. The author states that the main responibility of any leader is development and management of a team or organization goal (Hall). This was a very profound statement because it did not say create the vision or values it said to manage the vision. Moreover, the vision requires action, accountability and responsibility from all parties especially the leader. If the leader is not working towards the mission and constantly reminding the team then chances are the team takes little action or responsibiliy for their role in the vision.
The success of the vision comes when all stakeholders buy into the team vision and create individual objectives that are aligned with the vision. That statement alone sealed it for me, I totally agree and believe witout the team working towards the big picture chances of meeting your overall goal is slim. For example on athletic team may all have a vision to win a championship as a team but in order to reach that vision each team member has a different goal but that goal is aligned with the teams vision.
Technology for School Leadership
What a wealth of information inluded in one chapter, many of the applications, database software and the history of office automation is something I needed more clarity. I have to reflect back to the knowledge is power section of the text because it is such a powerful statment. Technology allows schools to report data, collect, manage, manipulate and even compare processes. This is definitely a resource I plan on referring back to in the future.
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References
Hall, D. (2008). The Technology Director’s Guide to Leadership. ISTE
Picciano, A G. (2011). Educational leadership and planning for
technology (5th ed.). Hunter College, NY: Allyn & Bacon.
I agree "The Technology's Director's Guide to Leadership" is an easy and informative read. I have really been enjoying it compared to our other textbook. I agree that an effective leader needs to be great at development and management. Without management development would not work correctly.
I liked your example about an athletic team. I agree that Schools need to work together like teams in order to achieve their technology goals.
I think it is a great idea for schools/districts/teachers to share technological data and ideas with each other.
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