What It Means to Be a Principal - Your Guide to Leadership - John C. Daresh - Paperback Bog - SAGE Publications Inc - 2001 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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"Becoming a principal involves more than merely applying for a job. It means taking part in a long voyage toward becoming the most effective leader you can become." Author, educator, and leader John C. Daresh leads you on that journey in a unique and important book that combines self-exploration and career planning in a powerful new way. Now you can look at every facet of the most important career decision you can make. You′ll ask yourself if you really want to be a principal . . . you′ll discover what the job truly entails and how it matches up with your real career goals and personal plans. By examining a series of critical issues, this book can help you make that all-important decision by showing you what it′s really like to be a principal on a day-to-day basis. Issues include: - - Differing views of administration - - The role of superintendents and district personnel - - Visions of leadership - - Conflict as part of the job - - The frustrations of leadership - - What it means to be in charge - - Options for principal professional development What It Means to Be a Principal is a work of insight and action — a challenging real-world framework that will help you make one of the most important decisions of your career. John C. Daresh has worked as a professional educator for more than 30 years in public schools in Iowa and Illinois and in universities across the country, and has served as a consultant to school districts, state departments of education, and universities. Currently he serves as a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Foundations at the University of Texas at El Paso. Daresh has been a frequent contributor to the literature on principalship, and is the author of the best-seller Beginning the Principalship from Corwin Press.