Course details
This course provides an opportunity for participants to aquire the knowledge and skills in key areas of educational leadership. The course aims to provide participants with the necessary skills for effective educational leadership and management and to increase their self-confidence and self-efficacy. Participants will be presented with theoretical concepts and will engage in self-directed learning through project work. They will apply this learning to their own practice and in their own particular education environment.
Learning Outcomes of the Programme
On successful completion of the course, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate competency in strategic planning, mentoring, public relations, education law, financial management and information technology;
- Demonstrate knowledge of educational leadership theory and related managerial functions;
- Articulate and analyse personal values in educational leadership and management
- Evaluate your practice in light of theoretical perspectives through critical reflection on your own practice and work environment;
- Display and further develop autonomous professional leadership and managerial initiative;
- Research complex educational managerial issues, make sound creative judgements on these and communicate your findings;
- Be eligible for progression to programmes leading to a higher qualification such as a Doctoral Degree (level 10).
The MAME is a flexible modular 90-credit programme. A range of elective modules are offered each year, from which you select modules to suit your own development needs or towards completion of the Masters programme.
Programme Overview
Mandatory Modules
- Academic Enquiry
- Leading Learning
Electives
- Strategic Planning
- Mentoring
- Information Technology
- Financial Management
- Public Relations
- Human Resource Management
- Education Law
- Practical Leadership
- Enterprise and Innovation
- Research Methods in Education
- Dissertation
Entry Requirements
- An Honours Degree or equivalent
- Three years’ postgraduate experience
- Applicants must have access to an educational organisation
- Applicants whose first language is not English must submit evidence of competency in English.
Course Location
About Waterford Institute of Technology
We_They is a university-level institution in the South-East of Ireland with over 10,000 students and 1,000 staff.
We_They offers tuition and research programmes in various areas from Higher Certificate to Degree to PhD.
Range and scope
We_They is the major provider of higher education in the South East region of Ireland and one of the largest IOT's in Ireland. The Institute's range and scope reflect the changing needs of the southeast as well as the country as a whole. The range of academic programmes is exceptionally extensive, ranging from Higher Certificate right through to post-doctoral research and covering the Humanities, Health and Nursing, Science and Informatics, Engineering and Architecture, Business and Education.
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