Course details

The programme is intended to support education staff currently holding, or who intend to take up, leadership and management positions in schools and centres of education. The aim of the programme is to provide for the development of knowledge, understanding, and skills required for effective leadership and management in schools and centres of education.

Entry Requirement

  • Post Primary and Primary educational staff who aspire to leadership positions.

Examinations

All participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance in Leadership and Management in Education from LIT Tipperary. For those participants who wish to achieve an accredited Level 7 Special Purpose Award (10 credits) in Leadership and Management in Education, the assessment process requires participants to present a ‘Reflective Journal/Portfolio’. The purpose of this Journal is:

  • To help each participant document and reflect on key learning moments throughout the programme.
  • To encourage and harness a continuous reflective capacity that enables participants to witness, explore, ponder on, synthesise, evaluate and analyse, the key learning elements that are significant.
  • To encourage participants to apply some of the learning and knowledge from the programme to a specific task or role in their respective school or work environment.

Course Content

  • Programme content will include a balanced contribution from a practical and theoretical perspective including:
  • Personality type profiling – a Myers Briggs Model
  • Educational Leadership
  • Values and how they impact on action
  • Educational Planning (in the context of School Development Planning)
  • The changing educational context
  • Interpersonal relations
  • Conflict resolution
  • Education administration and leadership
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Limerick Institute of Technology

Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) is an institute of higher education in Limerick, a modern urban city in the Mid-Theyst region of Ireland and is one of 13 institutes that are members of the Institutes of Technology, Ireland (IOTI). LIT is the fTheirth largest IOT in Ireland, with more than 6000 full time and part time students and 500 staff.

The Institute has five campuses and a learning centre across Limerick city, Tipperary and Clare. The main campus is located at Moylish Park, with two city centre campuses in Clare Street and Georges Quay in Limerick city. LIT in Tipperary is based in two campuses -Thurles and Clonmel. The LIT Ennis Learning Centre is based in the museum in Ennis town centre.

LIT offers cTheirses at Level 6 (certificate) through to Level 10 (PhD) whilst also catering for craft apprentices and adult and continuing education.  LIT was awarded the Sunday Times Institute of Technology of the Year in 2008 and 2013 by the Sunday Times University Guide. The guide is the definitive guide to higher education in Ireland and the UK.

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