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Educational Leadership and Management: Lecturer: Ms. Janet Au Yeung

This lecture discusses curriculum leadership and decision-making processes in schools. Regarding curriculum leadership, the lecture defines what makes up a curriculum including aims, goals, objectives, knowledge, skills, alignment of learning and teaching with assessment. Decision-making types are categorized into historical, off-the-shelf, appraisal, search, and nova processes. Modes of decision-making are also presented depending on contingencies such as time availability, information level, and willingness to involve others.

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Educational Leadership and Management: Lecturer: Ms. Janet Au Yeung

This lecture discusses curriculum leadership and decision-making processes in schools. Regarding curriculum leadership, the lecture defines what makes up a curriculum including aims, goals, objectives, knowledge, skills, alignment of learning and teaching with assessment. Decision-making types are categorized into historical, off-the-shelf, appraisal, search, and nova processes. Modes of decision-making are also presented depending on contingencies such as time availability, information level, and willingness to involve others.

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Educational Leadership

and Management
Lecturer : Ms. Janet Au Yeung
Lecture 9
Lecture 9
Quiz

Theories of Leadership
• Curriculum leadership

Decision-making
• Decision-making and its process
Curriculum leadership
 What makes up a curriculum? (from the brainstorming
exercise in the previous lecture)
 Aims, goals, objectives
 Generic skills, values & attitudes, KLA knowledge
 Alignment of learning and teaching with assessment
 Reading Across the Curriculum (English KLA)
 Pedagogy
A look at a set of EDB resource as an example

Link
Decision-making
What are the types of decisions that are made in school
context?
How to
Rational decision-making organize?

 Rationaldecision-making is a strategy that


ro blem
seeks “the best possible alternative to Does a p
exist?
maximise the achievement of goals and
objectives” Look for options?
 Class notes :
Revie
w?

Discuss?
What to discuss?

and
Decide nt?
e
implem
Types of organizational decision-making processes

5 categories grouped by Nutt 1984:


 Historical - guide by precedents
 Off-the-shelf – choosing from a number of relatively obvious alternatives
 Appraisal – entails a more comprehensive, in-depth evaluation of less
familiar alternatives
 Search - takes place when no alternatives are available and the decision-
makers lack knowledge of the basis for decisions. Can involve collection
of data and analysis to provide a better picture
 Nova – requires the leader / manager and the staff in generating and
evaluating fresh ideas for implementation
Modes of decision-making (for discussion)
Contingencies A B C D E F G H
1. An emergency exists
2. Little time is available to decide A – Leader decides
3. Considerable time is available to B – Leader decides after recommendation
decide by expert or project team
4. Decision doesn’t merit time for C – Small executive body decides
group deliberation D – Leader decides after consulting or
polling individuals
5. Leader is unwilling to share E – Leader decides after consulting the
decision with group group
6. Leader has necessary information F – Leader decides after using the Delphi
to decide technique
7. Leader lacks necessary G – Group decides by majority vote
information to decide H – Group decides by consensus

8. Leader wants counsel but wants


to keep options open
9. Leader is incapacitated
10. Leader lacks confidence in the
group

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