Leading and managing for effective education
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Summary
E849 is aimed at practitioners and leaders in education who want to understand leadership and how to improve their leadership skills. Designed to meet the professional development needs of teachers, middle and senior managers, and others working in educational organisations, the course will develop your understanding of current thinking on educational leadership and management, as well as your skills of critical reflection, analysis and communication. You do not need to have a specified leadership post to benefit from E849.
Course content
You’ll be using new technologies and printed materials, and receive specialist tutor support. The course assessment will enable you to apply what you learn to your own professional context. Taking E849 with its partner course Researching educational leadership and management (E859) (along with Educational enquiry (E891)) leads to a specialist MA Ed/M Ed degree in leadership and management. If you plan to take both courses, we recommend that you study E849 then E859.
The course offers guidance in planning your use of the materials in an integrated way, linking the course’s concepts and activities to your own thinking and practice. The study guide and readers enable you to explore and apply key themes:
- The nature of educational leadership and management
- Issues of values, ethics and educational purposes
- The influence of changing external and internal contextual factors on educational organisations
- Accountability, evaluation and effectiveness
- Strategic leadership and management of change
- Environmental analysis and links with stakeholders
- Effective leadership and management of staff and teams.
Online group activities are an integral part of the course, closely linked to the assignments. There are three online forum activities which enable you to learn interactively, working with other students and your course tutor.
The end of course assessment (which takes the place of an examination) is a small scale leadership project that will both develop you as a leader and benefit your organisation. Students in recent years have undertaken a range of leadership projects, for example: departmental reorganisation, homework policies, key stage leadership, assessment strategies, and staff development.
A wide range of students take this course from primary phase teachers through to college lecturers, heads of department, headteachers, and more specialised educational practitioners.
Vocational relevance
National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) applicants who hold the Masters in Education (Leadership and Management) can use their prior learning in their NPQH application.
Entry
This course can be studied on its own or as part of the Masters degree in Education. Acceptance on to this course is subject to you satisfying the following entry requirement:
- a bachelors degree from a UK university or other recognised degree-awarding body, or an award at equivalent level.
The course is taught in English, and your spoken and written English must be of an adequate standard for postgraduate study. If English is not your first language, we recommend that you seek assessment under the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). Please see their website for details.
You need not be a practising teacher, but you need some access to an educational organisation in order to fulfil the assessment requirements. If you do not fulfil these entry requirements, you may still apply if you feel your experience equips you for study at this level. It is essential, however, that you provide detailed evidence of this in your application. If you have any doubt about the suitability of the course, please contact our Student Registration & Enquiry Service.
Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) bursaries
We may be able to offer bursaries for eligible students. For further details please visit our website.
Qualifications
E849 is an optional course in our
- Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Studies in Education (C27)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Studies in Education (D52)
- Masters degree in Education (F01)
- MBA (F02)
- Master of Public Administration (F44)
E849 is one of the courses you can select if you want to name your degree Master of Education (Leadership and Management).
Some postgraduate qualifications allow study to be chosen from other subject areas. We advise you to refer to the relevant qualification descriptions for information on the circumstances in which this course can count towards these qualifications because from time to time the structure and requirements may change.
Excluded combinations
Sometimes you will not be able to count a course towards a qualification if you have already taken another course with similar content. To check any excluded combinations relating to this course, visit our excluded combination finder or check with our Student Registration & Enquiry Service before registering.
If you have a disability or additional requirement
The course materials are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Some Adobe PDF components may not be available or fully accessible using a screen reader. Large print versions of the course materials can be provided on request. Other alternative formats of the course materials may be available in the future. Our Services for disabled students website has the latest information about availability.
You will need to spend considerable amounts of time using a personal computer and the internet. If you are a new student, or new to courses using a computer or the internet, you will need to inform us of your particular needs as soon as possible, as some of our support services may take several weeks to arrange. Details of how to do this and our range of support services are described in our booklet Meeting Your Needs which you can download or request from our Student Registration & Enquiry Service.
You can also find information about accessible course materials, financial support and the Disabled Students' Allowance, equipment and other services, on our Services for disabled students website. It also includes our contact details for advice and support both before you register and while you are studying.
Course materials
What's included
Course books, other printed materials, online forums, course website.
Three specially prepared readers in the series, Leading and Managing for Effective Education:
- N. Bennett, M. Crawford, M. Cartwright (eds) Effective Educational Leadership
- M. Preedy, R. Glatter, C. Wise (eds) Strategic Leadership and Educational Improvement
- L. Kydd, L. Anderson, W. Newton (eds) Leading People and Teams in Education.
Computing requirements
This course includes online computer activities – you can access these using a web browser that can play Flash and Shockwave.
You will need internet access and a computer. If you have purchased a new computer since 2002 it should meet your course computing requirements. Check our Technical Requirements section if your computer is older than this or is otherwise unusual.
Teaching and assessment
Support from your tutor
You will have a tutor who will help you with the course material and mark and comment on your written work, and whom you can ask for advice and guidance. Most contact with your tutor and other course participants will take place online. We may also be able to offer group face-to-face tutorials that you are encouraged, but not obliged, to attend. Where tutorials are held depends on the distribution of students taking each course. Contact our Student Registration & Enquiry Service if you want to know more about study with The Open University before you register.
Assessment
The assessment details for this course can be found in the facts box above.
You will be expected to submit your tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) online through the eTMA system unless there are some difficulties which prevent you from doing so. In these circumstances, you must negotiate with your tutor to get their agreement to submit your assignment on paper.
The small-scale investigative project takes the place of an examination.
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Future availability
The details given here are for the course that starts in October 2010. This will be the final presentation of the course, but we expect that there will be a replacement course starting in October 2011.
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