The challenges for new principals in the 21st century : developing leadership capabilities through professional support

• Other Authors: Shoho, Alan R. (Editor), Barnett, Bruce G. (Editor), Tooms, Autumn K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2010.
• Series: International research on school leadership
• Subjects: School management and organization.; Education > Leadership.; Educational administration and organization.; Educational strategies and policy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806617210
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-61735-094-8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 pages)

This book series, International Research on School Leadership focuses on how present-day issues affect the theory and practice of school leadership. For this inaugural book, we focused on the challenges facing new principals and headteachers. Because the professional lives of school leaders have inc...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Alan R. Shoho, Bruce G. Barnett, and Autumn K. Tooms
• Chapter 1. Translational leadership: New principals and the theory and practice of school leadership in the twenty-first century / Bonnie C. Fusarelli, Matthew Militello, Thomas L. Alsbury, Edwin C. Price, and Thomas P. Warren
• Chapter 2. New headteachers in schools in England and their approaches to leadership / Gillian Forrester and Helen M. Gunter
• Chapter 3. So you want to be a headteacher?: Liabilities of newness, challenges, and strategies of new headteachers in Uganda / Pamela R. Hallam, Julie M. Hite, Steven J. Hite, and Christopher B. Mugimu
• Chapter 4. Problems reported by novice high school principals / Sarah Beth Woodruff and Theodore J. Kowalski
• Chapter 5. Accelerating new principal development through leadership coaching / Chad R. Lochmiller and Michael Silver
• Chapter 6. From mentoring to coaching: Finding the path to support for beginning principals / John C. Daresh
• About the authors
• Index.