ELM6145: Instructional Leadership For School Effectiveness

This module is a guide to collaborative strategies and activities that promote effective instructional leadership. Through this module, postgraduate students acquire knowledge, skills and competencies necessary for them to set clear school goals, manage curriculum, monitor lesson plans, allocate resources and evaluate teachers regularly to promote student learning and growth.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

• Explain the various instructional strategies that can encourage student development of critical thinking, problem solving and performance skills
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the methods and techniques of instructional supervision; theories and principles of educational supervision; the techniques of instructional supervision; the indicators of school effectiveness and teacher effectiveness; the parameters of quality and standards in education

• Use leadership skills acquired in managing leaning process in schools
• Explain the strategies and methods of effecting school improvement
• Engage in continuous professional development in school leadership

• Identify a leadership style appropriate to the school context
• Act as role model in the community
• Demonstrate equity in school leadership
• Show empathy in executing leadership roles
• Show commitment in involving parents/community in learning-teaching process

• Create mechanisms to engage teachers in continuous, collaborative and individual learning
• Make the school a lifelong learning organization
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Module Facilitators: 

- Prof. Eugene Ndabaga

School of Education,

Email: ndabagav@yahoo.ie

- Dr. Dan Imaniriho

School of Education,

Email: irihodan@gmail.com