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Strohschen, Gabriele I. E., Ed.; Lewis, Kim, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Education for adults ought to consider a both-and mindset when it comes to selecting approaches, values, and program models in today's multi-sector, multi-diverse, and cross-cultural environments of teaching and learning. Experiences from educational professionals can lead to recommendations for these instruction and mentoring approaches of adults…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Situated Learning, Active Learning
Peddy, Walter J. – Principal Leadership, 2009
The first year as a principal is filled with self-doubt. As one already knows, there is no book or guide that can fully prepare someone for what the principal's position entails. All first-year principals have to learn by doing. In this article, the author discusses five keys to success that will guide and help first-year principals with the…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Leadership Qualities, Leaders Guides, Self Efficacy
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Leithwood, Kenneth; Jantzi, Doris – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2008
Purposes: This study aimed to improve our understanding of the nature, causes and consequence of school leader efficacy, including indirect influences on student learning. We asked about district contributions to school leader efficacy, whether leader self- and collective efficacy responded to the same or different district conditions and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Effectiveness
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Winter, Paul A.; Rinehart, James S.; Keedy, John L.; Bjork, Lars G. – Journal of School Leadership, 2007
A statewide cadre of principal certification students (N = 516) completed a principal job survey and role-played as applicants for a principal position by completing a principal job evaluation instrument. Significant predictors of principal job rating included the following: self-reported capability to do the job, expected satisfaction with work…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Evaluation, Job Analysis