Topic outline

  • General

  • Orientation

    • Course description Page

      Leadership in educational institutions demand a comprehensive understanding on school leadership. Broad-based pedagogical leadership offers tools for analyzing questions that are related to pedagogical leadership and developing schools as an inclusive practice of the whole school community. Broad based pedagogical leadership comprises technical, human and pedagogical but also symbolic leadership and the meanings of the shared work of the community which can be understood as a cultural leadership of the school. Moreover, this leadership approach focuses not only the leadership of the principal but also teachers and their participation and commitment on leadership and development of educational institutions.

      Training consists of pre assignment, lectures, workshops in small groups and 10 week remote session. 

      Trainees: 

      Tapio Lahtero, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Administrative Principal, University of Helsinki

      Kirsi-Marja Heikkinen, PhD researcher, University of Helsinki

       


    • Learning outcomes Page

      After completing this course, you as a participant are able to...

      • Comprehend the concept of broad based pedagogical leadership 
      • Understand how broad based pedagogical leadership works through human resources (well being, motivation) and leadership structures ( leadership structures, distributed leadership)
      • Identify with how to lead the school operating culture and management culture (effect of organizational culture, leadership culture)
      • Understand what kind of pedagogical leadership is needed to support the implementation of CBC
      • Reflect the benefits of pedagogical leadership to Kenyan teacher education and school context and how teacher education and school context should be developed to support CBC and broad based pedagogical leadership

    • Study guidance and assessment Page

      Completing the course: 

      • Active attendance to the lectures and workshops 
      • Returned pre assignment and reflective journal 

      Participants will get a certificate after completing the course.  


    • General instructions for workshops Page

      Workshops :

      • Three groups (Early Childhood Education / Primary school /Secondary school) 
      • You can divide these groups in half if you feel that one group is too big
      • All groups choose a leader, who guides the cooperation in the group and saves the workshop tasks to Moodle after the workshop
      • Workshop activities are participatory and base on shared reflective dialogue in groups 
      • The most important task is to reflect the lectures and convert the idea of pedagogical leadership to the local educational context   
      • Personal laptop and access to Moodle is needed during the workshop  
      • You can find all workshop activities and instructions from Moodle


  • Pre assignment

  • Submit your workshop assignments here

  • Day 1

    • Lecture 1: theoretical understanding on pedagogical leadership Page

      ·       Experiences from Finnish context: self-evaluation

      ·       Pedagogical leadership: leading learning and teaching at school context

      ·       Leadership actions and learning results

      ·       Leading teacher competence, setting goals, promoting the quality learning environment

      ·       The significance of attitudes and beliefs


    • Lecture 1 File
    • Workshop 1 Page
       SWOT analysis is a compilation of your organization's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
    • SWOT table File

      Here you can find the Word file for your SWOT analysis and some guiding questions to do the analysis. 


  • Day 2

  • Day 3

  • Remote training

    • Instructions for remote session Page

      To deepen your understanding of the topic, read articles of Lahtero, T. & Kuusilehto-Awale, L. (2015). Possibility to Engage in Pedagogical Leadership as Experienced by Finnish Newly Appointed Principals and 

      Lahtero, T. & Risku, M. (2012). Symbolic leadership and leadership culture in one unified comprehensive school in Finland. Also, use the material from the pre assignment and three-day training session (lectures and workshops). 

      · With your reflective knowledge of the course content, plan and arrange two meetings (learning cafe for example, 45 minutes) for group of colleagues or principals. 

      · You may choose the topics you find most relevant for your participants. However, the topics have to consider pedagogical leadership we have discussed during the lectures and workshops.  Also, to encourage the dialogue and reflection to your national context it is recommended to use participatory methods. 

      · Write a reflective journal of your planned sessions. Times New Roman, 12. Max 3000 words. 

      · Write down your plans: goals, methods, content with argumentation.   

      · After the learning cafe, write down a short reflection of each meetings. Observations, ideas. thoughts, possibilities, results, what you find relevant for your paper. Reflect your observations to the articles above. 


    • Articles Folder

      Lahtero, T. & Kuusilehto-Awale, L. (2015). Possibility to Engage in Pedagogical Leadership as Experienced by Finnish Newly Appointed Principals. American Journal of Educational Research, 2015, 3(3), 318-329. DOI:10.12691/education-3-3-11

      Lahtero, T. & Risku, M. (2012). Symbolic leadership and leadership culture in one unified comprehensive school in Finland, School Leadership & Management: Formerly School Organisation, 32:5, 523-535, DOI: 10.1080/13632434.2012.724669

  • Supplementary assignment for day 3 workshop



    • Supplementary assignment

      The goal of supplementary assignment  is to reflect the lecture topic: organization and leadership culture to your own experiences and perceptions. You can find slides to this topic in "Day 3" folder. 

      Take a pair and reflect:
      •How would you define your school organization and leadership culture?
      •What kind of changes you would like to promote (to your school organization and leadership culture)?
      •What actions are needed to make the change? 

      Write a short reflective essay of your discussion. 500 words. 
      Everyone have to make their own submission of the assignment