Assignment Question
‘Leadership impacts an organization’. Similarly, educational leadership impacts an Institution. Answer the following questions by making reference to an institution that you work with or one that you are familiar with.
Then complete the following tasks:（4000 words）
Your report (not exceeding 4000 words and not below 3500 words) should incorporate the following:
Executive Summary (5%) (200 -300 words)
• Summary
Introduction (15%) 300-400 words
• A concise background of the institution and its structure and include details about numbers of students, teachers, administration etc, to enable to reader to understand the institution better. Include the vision, mission and objectives. *please refer to the following background and revise a little if appropriate
Introduction
The school, Y-Excellent Education Centre, is located in Hong Kong and has ten teachers and 100 students. The school started in 2008 to provide affordable, accessible, and equal opportunities for children to learn English. The identified challenges in English around China made the education center promote affordable and quality educational services in Hong Kong among the students. The learning center fosters children’s potential to offer a range of structured English programs that tailored according to the child’s age and class ability. Y-Excellent provides professional knowledge and skills in learning English for children and growing with international language. The learning of English improves the communication skills of the children.
Vision, Mission, and Values
VMV of Y-Excellent Education Centre
The mission of the English learning center is to provide quality courses that improve children’s ability in English, provide love and care, professionalism, and enthusiasm that will ultimately help children build up confidence in learning English and make use of it in the future. The learning institution believes that students hold an innate, critical sense of curiosity, thus guiding and nurturing students throughout the learning process.
The successful growth of students depends on various factors which need to exist in their lives. The students must have access to an effective and engaging curriculum that impacts positively on their learning. The learning must be individualized so that the learners understand English at a personal level because communication skills are personal. The learning environment must be stimulating and nurturing so that the learners are encouraged to focus on their studies (Susanti et al., 2020). The students must have the opportunity to receive small-group tutorials and positive reinforcement, and family support. The teachers must be willing and ready to offer enthusiastic support to the learners.
Body of report (60%) 2800-3000 words
Critically identify the many problems that your Institution or School is facing and classify them to be under the following categories: students, teachers, the administration and environment. Explain why you think these problems are occurring.
Identify the problems related to students, teachers, administration, environment. Use your critical thinking, to determine why the problems are occurring.
* can focus on 4-5 points per area but need to be the same number of points
Problems Faced and Why
1.1 Students
– Maintaining discipline of the students
– Maintaining motivation of students to learn
– Students’ lack of access to live broadcasts
– Balancing diverse learning needs
– Students without access to technology
1.2 Teachers
– Recruitment of academic staff
– Staff retention
– Teacher evaluation
– Classroom management strategy
– Course management & changing needs
– School work struggle
– Lot of paperwork
1.3 Administration
– Making decisions strategically
– Student Monitoring
– Maintaining some degree of remote learning
– Introducing new learning technology
1.4 Environment
– High cost in maintenance and operations
– Communication with parents
– Poor school infrastructure
– Lack of proper funding
– Following COVID-19 safety protocols
2. Suggest strategies that you might introduce in order to solve the problems faced.
Analyse and make propose suitable strategies to solve the problem. Incorporate theories and models. (use Henry Fayol’ 14 Principles of Management and Models of Education Management)
Need to use pic to do demonstration. Please make sure the 5 points are need for each area
3. As a leader, what leadership style should apply, to manage the situation?
Suggest a leadership style to manage the situation by discussing ONE leadership style in detail and why it is suitable for your institution.
3.1 What is leadership?
3.2 Discuss a few types of leadership
3.3 Identify one person – and under this describe the leadership – The Principal (Mixed leadership)
3.4 Recommendation for leadership
Recommendations and Conclusion (20%) 300 words
• In this section, summarise the recommendations that are feasible that you would propose to your Management. When making critical recommendations for changes describing why they are needed.
• Conclude with an action plan and timeline.
You should use the web, media, books and journals, library and other resources to write the assignment
in a Management Report format. Where applicable and relevant, you are also encouraged to conduct fieldwork and interviews to collect relevant information for your report. Use the Harvard-style referencesystem with in-text and end text referencing list of a minimum of 15 references. Cite all references used.