Understanding Leadership

Concepts

Mission: the mission express the objectives which the institutions want to achieve in the present, all the community know them and serve as a guide that indicate limitations or opportunities to propose activities and approaches. For example, in the mission of an institutions appears “ABC institution has the best science development all the students will learn about this…” The main objective is improving the education in science, all the subjects should be focused in contribute to achieve this goal.

Vision: the vision express the objectives planed for the future, this motivate at the community to continue working, as the mission is a guide for them, it could be used as motivation inside the community and the measurement of achieves. For example: “In ten years ABC institution will be recognized by their innovating projects of science” the objective is already purposed for the future, during this period of time the staff have to focus on look for projects and activity which improve science knowledge and the principal have to look for contest and resources to be recognized.

Strategy: it is the way how the objectives will be achieving; strategies contain forms and steps which all the staff and administrators have to follow to be successful. The strategies change according to the results acquired during the process and the possible changes of the context, resources and the staff. For example: the ABC institution to achieve the objective of be the best in science have to look for strategies which help to teach science, look for resources to buy laboratories and count with staff specialized in this subject, analyze the student’s context and previous knowledge. When something is going wrong they have to check and change strategies.

Strategy for the institution Ignacio Pescador.

Mission: provide education to the entire community from grade 0 to grade 11, training good humans through the development of social, physical, intellectual and spiritual skills.

 

Vision: The Ignacio Pescador Educational Institution will be recognized for its quality in the educational processes based on an environment of respect, tolerance, responsibility, honesty and equity in coherence with its life project.

 

Strategy of management

The Institution Ignacio Pescador use the formal Model due to their structure, the principal is who take decisions about how the teachers have to manage the students, this model could be changed by the collegial model.  This institution promotes the same values, so all the projects have to be focused or based on them, in this part it is necessary to include the ideas of other teachers to continue constructing values among the members, the collegial model offers this possibility  according to Bush “ the collegial model assume a common set of values held by members” , the teachers are with students during the day, so they are able to design activities which help them with their life project because in this time already know what are the interest, likes and dislikes of the students, so is essential that teachers have autonomy in the design of the activities to develop in the classrooms.  In the academic part reinforce with quiz, do ICFES simulacrum complete the staff with expert teachers, the constant evaluation is essential to determine the advances and problems, as teachers will possess autonomy they will be able to create groups with the objective of create projects to improve the acquisition of knowledge, purpose strategies to become classes more interactive, create activities extra class for students for example contests, fairs etc. in this part is very important to omit the consensus about take decisions, because consensus take many time and sometimes it is not necessary to create a meeting for evaluate projects, the interests of teachers could be involved there and remove the objective at the moment of take decisions, the principal should support all the projects and only focus on results, if that projects are not working ask teacher to renovate or make adjustments, due to if principal is who take decisions the autonomy given at teacher would be a lie, according to Hoyle (1986) “ the dependence of  principal’s support limits the validity of the collegiality model” (Hoyle,1986).

Analysis of Leardership models.

Model	Focused on	Dimensions or principles	Role of principals or readers.
Managerial	the main objective are the present activities than the vision about the future. It possesses good centralized systems.	The organization is hierarchical, the decisions are taking in a rational way and are authoritarian.	The roll of the leader is take decisions, planning, implement and evaluate the projects, priority some topics than other, organize the work among community
Transformational	The main objective is achieve educational objectives through the commitment and abilities of organizational members.	The principles are essential for autonomous school, it is very comprehensive, has charismatic features which become despotic.	It is essential gain the commitment of followers.
Participative	All the members participate taking decisions. The organization is considered as a team.	The participation is justified by democratic principles, the leadership is the most important.	The leader is seen as a member of a group of professionals who take decisions about the institutions.
Instructional	Focused on the behavior of teachers working with the students, the influence is more important than the nature.	Improve the learning and teaching in the community, creating support and conditions to achieve knowledge.	Create spaces for teachers and students to acquire knowledge, at the end this will increase the results
Political and transactional	Focused in exchanges inside the organization.	Requires co-operation of staff to secure the effective management	The interaction is shorter among the members due to the different positions of power.

    References. 

Bush, Tony. (2007). Educational leadership and management: Theory, policy, and practice. South African journal of education. Vol 27 (3) 391-406.  http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/426/1/WRAP_Bush_107_366_1_PB1.pdf 

Bush, T. (2006). Theories of Educational Management. International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 1(2), n2. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1066693.pdf