Analyzing The Role Of Educational Leadership In The Classroom: XYZ School

Research background

The research topic is “to analyze the role of educational leadership in the classroom: in context of XYZ school.

The educational leadership is crucial to develop a unique image in the marketplace. This school has needed to gain their understanding towards the role educational leadership in the classroom. It will also help the school to sustain their position in the marketplace in long-term. Furthermore, educational leadership facilitates the teacher as well as parents to attain the common educational goal. Hence, it is significant for this school to practice educational leadership in their classroom for gaining their profitability. In this research, educational leadership practices are imperative to improve the performance of teacher that will direct impact on the performance of the school (Parkay, et al., 2014). In addition, it will facilitate the school to gain their productivity by improving their existing performance.

In the current business scenario, many schools practiced educational leadership to make a distinguish image among competitors. Through this, the teacher will be able to develop their effectiveness together with their abilities to get higher profit. In addition, it is also addressed that many schools of UK have exercised the educational leadership to improve skills of teachers like communication, interpersonal, and listening skills. It will help the teacher to effectively lead the students and solve their issues by best ways (Pazey, and Cole 2013). Through this, a teacher will also be able to eliminate anxiety and negative environment from the classroom. Consequently, teacher will be capable to make positive atmosphere in the classroom. Moreover, it is also analyzed that there are many reasons that attracts the researcher to do their research on this particular research topic such as significance of research topic, availability of data, and lack of research on this particular research matter (Harris, 2013).  

Furthermore, it is also addressed that these elements could be crucial to influence the researcher to make well-organized research in this region and get a reliable and valid outcome. Besides this, many researchers have done their research on the educational leadership and school performance but there is no research on the role of educational leadership in the classroom.

The introduction chapter discuss many elements like research background, research aims and objectives, research rationale, and research question. It will also support to gain the understanding regarding research (Northouse, 2015).  The literature review section supports the researcher to gain their conceptual understanding towards the role of educational leadership in the context of specified Trust, UK. It discusses many significant concepts related to the educational leadership. This section is significant to critically evaluate the challenges faced by the teacher in the school. It also discusses strategies that support to improve educational leadership. Furthermore, it is a significant method to identify the standard data towards the research issue that will support to develop an important framework (Onorato, 2013).  The research methodology section is significant to collect the appropriate data towards research issues. It will also help the researcher to analyze the collected data to attain the feasible result. This section discusses many kinds of tools research methodology like research philosophy, research approach, research strategy, and data collection method. It can be said that this section will be effective to gain the knowledge about the research methods, which will be crucial to collect the appropriate data. The ‘data analysis and findings’ chapter will aid the researcher to analyze the collected data through data analysis methods. There are many methods that will be used by the researcher to analyze the data like the literature review and statistical data analysis method (Hoppey and McLeskey 2013). This is the last chapter of this research that shows the summary of the whole research. It will also help to understand the whole researcher in less time. This chapter also shows the strategies that will be effective to improve the educational leadership in the context of schools located in the UK.

Research Outline

The educational leadership is significant to lead the talent and energies of parents and teachers to attain their common educational goal. The primary focus of the school is educational leadership because it can directly influence the performance of the school. The understanding about the information technology could be imperative to improve the internal capabilities together with the financial performance of the school (Schleicher, 2015). It will aid the researcher to generate awareness about educational leadership. Moreover, it will also be imperative for the researcher if they want to make their career in school. This research will provide the depth of knowledge towards the role of educational leadership in the classroom. The educational leadership is important for the school because it will help to improve the ways of teaching by enhancing the skills of teachers. Furthermore, it is significant to keep the teacher skills and attain the specified goal of school. In the current dynamic situation, it is mandatory for the school to enhance their understanding towards the implementation of educational leadership to improve their performance (Boudett and Murnane 2013). As a result, the school will be capable of establishing a distinctive image in the marketplace. In addition, a large number of schools have used the educational leadership to improve their performance and make a favorable relationship with their clients and gain a higher competitive benefit. So, XYZ trust is used effective techniques to successfully implement the educational leadership in their place of work. Through this, an organization will be able to meet the specified task at predetermined time and cost (Garrison and Vaughan 2013). This research study can be used to identify the importance of the educational leadership in the classroom. In addition, this research is vital to generate the strategies to improve the practices of the educational leadership in classroom.

The main aim of this research is to address the role of educational leadership in the classroom: in context of XYZ trust.

• To address the meaning and concept of educational leadership in the classroom:  in context of XYZ trust.
• To evaluate different factors that can affect the educational leadership in the classroom: in context of XYZ trust.
• To recommend the strategies for improving the educational leadership in the classroom: in context of XYZ trust.

• What is the meaning and concept of educational leadership in the classroom?
• What are the factors that could affect the educational leadership in the classroom in the classroom?
• What are the strategies for improving the educational leadership in the classroom?

Leadership entails the act of assisting a set of individuals to attain their tasks effectively and helps to build working liaison between its team members. In order to achieve successful tasks, both task leadership acts and group maintenance leadership acts should be offered by leaders. It is identified that any member of a group could become a leader by taking these required actions such as that it is not necessary for a teacher to become a leader. The wide range of leadership acts could be offered by different team members so that the teacher could choose to allocate different leadership characteristics among class members (Sebastian, et al., 2014).

Research rational

A classroom is a set of learner activities in which groups have different basic objectives such as learning tasks and to keep favourable and effective liaison between team members. The teacher should be aware that group function could be affected in the case of sharing leadership tasks among team members. However there are some students who are familiarized about leadership in classes in which the teacher plays different leadership roles. When an organisation wants that the student to assume leadership roles then the student should be given permission to act and facilitate instruction to play the best role in the classroom (Parkay, et al., 2014)  Further, while teachers avoid leadership then they do not offer leadership themselves or provoke students to act on their leadership roles. In addition, students may themselves choose to play informal leadership roles in the classroom hence the teacher should reinstate individuals’ roles as team members.

As per the view of Shapiro and Stefkovich (2016) school leadership is the best way to lead the talents and energies of tutors, parents, and people for accomplishing general educational objectives. In the United States, a large number of universities offer degrees in educational leadership. In the current scenario, many challenges of educational leadership are removed through the self-assessment technique. Moreover, it could support to operate the educational leadership in the classroom successfully.   

In opposition to this, Gu and Day (2013) stated that the educational leadership is usually the accountability of school management team that initiate to develop the positive changes in educational procedure and policy. UK universities offer degrees related to educational leadership for enhancing the awareness of educational leadership in schools. Through this, the school would be capable to improve their performance.   

In support of this, DeMatthews and Mawhinney (2014) explained that educational leadership plays an imperative role in the classroom because it aids the teachers towards improving their educational procedure in postsecondary, elementary, and secondary institutions. It is also stated that those schools that have use educational leadership in their classroom then they perform better as compared to other schools who do not apply educational leadership. Also the school can use educational leadership for increasing the growth of the school. The educational leader of the school is employed as an administrator and school principal. In addition the educational leaders have more roles and responsibilities as compared to another leader.

On the other side, Voogt et al. (2013) evaluated there are different factors that may affect the educational leadership in the classroom. It is also been observed that different country schools have a varying level of autonomy in the classroom. Furthermore in some schools, the principals lead the teaching staff by using the educational leadership while other schools do not rely on educational leadership. Hence, these kinds of differences can affect the performance of the classroom. The leadership development activity will influence curernt performance of the school. The personality of a teacher can impact on the ways of teaching that influence the performance of the student as well as creating a unique impression on the learner.

Research objectives

In the view of Eisner, (2017) technology can also influence the educational leadership in the classroom. In school, educational leadership affects the behavior of school leaders that will directly impact on school performance. It has also been noted that confidence and digital communication technology is imperative for the student. Consequently, it will provide appropriate technique to student for acquiring their knowledge regarding the educational leadership. Also technology is a factor that can directly aid the teacher towards their roles in less time and attain feasible outcomes.       

On the other hand, Bryce, et al (2013) the leaders of the school play an imperative role in improving the performance of the organization. In addition, leaders create a structure for school to operate its activities. The leader performs many activities such as the development of leadership skills, allocate responsibilities of teachers, school commissioners, and councils of teaching school.  Further to this leaders in different countries have applied different tools and techniques to operate educational leadership in their respective schools as it could be effective for improving the performance of their schools.

Neumerski (2013) examined that schools should use many strategies to improve the educational leadership in the classroom. A leader should make a positive relationship with a student by giving the positive feedback to the student. It will also influence the performance of both students as well as the teacher. Hence, it can be said that the feedback can directly impact on the performance of the organization. Besides this, an organization should develop the clear consequences and expectation in the classroom because it will influence the behavior of the student and improve the performance of the school in less time and cost.

Bush and Glover (2014) argued that a teacher should make clear expectations of student’s for performing in the classroom. They should also make clear rules and regulation towards the activities and performance of students in the classroom. It will directly impact on the performance of the student as well as school. Through clear rules and regulation, the teacher will be capable to address the behaviors of all students. As a result, the teacher will offer the positive feedback to the student who performs better while they also offer the negative feedback that creates a negative atmosphere in the classroom by performing the wrong activity.   

In support of this, Bryce, Humes, et al. (2013) stated that a teacher should improve their skills towards the verbal and physical signs of students. Consequently, it will help the teacher to determine the students who perform inappropriately in the classroom. Besides this, the tutor should also determine the policy of a student group in order create a favorable relationship with them. They should also use home contingency techniques to influence the behaviour of students.    

Research Questions

This section of the assignment helps the researcher to create the depth of understanding towards many research methods in order to get the feasible result in the context of educational leadership in the classroom. Moreover, there are many methods that are entailed in the research methodology like research philosophy, research design, research approach, and data collection method.

It will be imperative to obtain the feasible result for attaining the research objectives (Paulsen, 2014). The main aim of this research is to address the role of educational leadership style in the context of XYZ trust. Furthermore, the researcher will imply many journals and articles to collect the data about the research matter. In addition, it can also be said that the research methodology could be imperative for improving the quality of research outcomes (Pazey and Cole 2013).

The research onion framework helps the researcher to create the best awareness towards each factor of research methodology. It will also support the process of collecting the actual data relating to the research issues (Hill and Grossman 2013). The following factors are considered in the research onion framework:    

Research philosophy is crucial for the researcher for collecting the information towards the research issue. It will also help to evaluate the operating data in the research study. This philosophy is used to execute the views and opinions of the research participants towards the research problems. Furthermore, the ideas and opinions of the researcher become a source for the research methods. It considers paradigm research philosophy for accomplishing the aim and objective of the research (Heck and Hallinger, 2014). In this research, interpretivism philosophy will be used by the researcher to collect the subjective information towards the research issue. In addition, this philosophy will help the researcher to increase awareness about the educational leadership practices in the classroom. Additionally the interpretivism philosophy will be practiced by the researcher to improve research outcome quality. For this research study, the positivism philosophy will not be considered by the researcher because this research is subjective in nature. Moreover, the positivism philosophy will be used by the researcher if the research is based on facts and figures (Marshall, 2013).     

In the research methodology, the research approach will be imperative to determine the reason to select the particular research process. There are two kinds of methods that are considered in the research approach like inductive and deductive research approach. The inductive approach will be used by the researcher to get the theoretical data towards the research matter. Besides this, the deductive approach is useful for developing the hypothesis and prove and reject them on the basis of data requirements. Through this, the researcher will easily reject and accept the research procedure in the context of the research matter (Savery, 2015).

Part B Literature review

For this dissertation, an inductive approach is an appropriate method as compared to the deductive approach. Because, this approach will aid the researcher to collect the theoretical data about the educational leadership. In this dissertation,  there is no need for the development of a hypothesis. The inductive approach will be used to gather the valid data towards the role of educational leadership in the school. This research approach could be imperative to pool the opinion and views of participants about the role of educational leadership in the classroom (Voogt, et al., 2013).       

The research design could be imperative for the researcher because it aids the researcher to accomplish the structure of research. From the execution of the research design, the research scholar will be capable of addressing the accurate method for obtaining reliable data in the context of the role of educational leadership in UK schools. Furthermore, it is also illustrated that this method will facilitate the researcher to establish the appropriate plan, which will support to get the appropriate data about the research matter (Preston, et al., 2013).

In this, the quantitative and qualitative method is considered in the research to collect valid data towards the research matter. Also the quantitative research design will support the researcher to obtain fact-based information by using statistical techniques. On the other hand, the qualitative research design will enable the researcher to get the theoretical information towards the role of educational leadership in the classroom. For this dissertation, the researcher utilises the qualitative research design to complete this research because this research is subjective in nature (Santamaría and Santamaría, 2013). 

It will help the researcher to establish the research issue. It will aid the researcher to get the reliable information in context of the research matter. In addition to this, the qualitative method will aid the researcher to identify the role of educational leadership along with the strategy that will improve the educational leadership from the school. For this dissertation, the researcher will be capable to keep the objectivity and gather reliable techniques towards the role of educational leadership in the context of XYZ trust (Mingaine, 2013).  

In the research study, research strategy is crucial for the researcher because it will enable them to analyze the data collection method and accomplish the research aims and objectives. The researcher can use many research strategies to resolve the research matter. In their research strategy, a researcher will use many methods like a focus group, case study, literature review, and surveys. In this particular research study, the literature review strategy has been used to develop theoretical data about the role of educational leadership for getting the feasible outcome (Santamaría, 2014). By implementing this strategy, the researcher will be capable of evaluating gathered information that could be associated with the role of educational leadership in the classroom.

Moreover, the researcher will also adopt the case study approach to evaluate the particular research subject and complete the research objectives. In contrast to this, the researcher will also use many different types of secondary data sources like magazines, company websites, journal and reference books. It will help the research scholar to get accurate data about the role of educational leadership in the school. In addition to this, it is also illustrated that the literature review is helpful for developing the conceptual information towards the role of educational leadership in the specified school. These research approaches will help the researcher to improve the accuracy of the research outcomes (DuFour and Mattos 2013).          

In the research study, data collection method will be imperative to determine the appropriate method for collecting the data in context of educational leadership. As a result, the researcher will be capable of completing the specified research aims and objectives systematically. This approach considers two kinds of methods namely primary and secondary data. In this, the primary data gathering technique will aid the researcher to get the new information in the context of the research matter (Hargreaves, et al., 2014). 

This data collection method includes many sources to collect the appropriate information like interviews, observations, questionnaires, surveys and focus groups. For example an interview is an interaction in which questions have been asked and responses are provided. It is a one-on-one communication where an individual performs the role of interviewer and other individual acts as an interviewee. It is stated that interviews entail an allocation of data from interviewee to interviewers (Kovach, 2014). The basic intention of the interview is to transfer data concurrently in both directions. Contrary to this, observation is an active attainment of data from the primary source. In general terms, observation occupies the senses. In discipline, observation could entail the recording of information through use of devices. Observation is referred to any data collection during the scientific practices.  Along with this, a questionnaire is a research instrument which is consists of different questions. The key intention of collecting data from participants is to get a reliable outcome. It is also used for statistical assessment of the answer. The focus group is a collection of purposely targeted people who are involved in a predetermined discussion. This discussion is used to gather a groups’ perception regarding a chosen research issue in an atmosphere that is non-threatening and approachable. The focus group combines a set of purposes. It is a sort of qualitative research which consists of interviews where a set of people are asked regarding their opinions, attitudes and perceptions with regards to particular research concern (Parkay, et al., 2014). On the other hand, the secondary data collection method is based on the available information because it will facilitate the researcher to obtain the information from the existing data in the context of the research matter. The secondary data collection method considers many sources to gather information relating to the research matter like books, case studies, online and literature reviews (Mitchell, 2014). Moreover, newspapers, magazines and books are also considered as a source of primary data collection.

In this research study, a researcher will adopt both data collection methods to obtain accurate data in the context of research matter. Primary data will be collected by survey through questionnaire method as it could be significant to get new information regarding the research issue. In contrast to this, secondary data will be collected from the literature review by using different sources such as text books, journal articles, company websites and online articles. In the research study, the primary data collection method is time-consuming while the secondary data collection method is more costly as compared to the primary data collection method (Onorato, 2013).     

In the research study, sampling methods aid the researcher to select the sample from the whole population in order to get the reliable result in the context of the specified research matter. In the research, probability and non-probability sampling methods will considered to get the information. The probability sampling method will facilitate the researcher to select the research participants on a random basis. Alternatively the non-probability sampling method will facilitate the researcher to select the candidates on behalf of many factors like age, gender, and education. For this dissertation, the researcher will implement the probability sampling method to pool the views of participants in the context of the research dilemma. This method will be used to exclude the biases from the research study . In this research, the researcher will select 40 teachers of XYZ trust.

In this research, the research ethics could be effective for completing the research aim and objectives. The researcher will follow the instruction of school to avoid issues from the research as it could be effective to conduct the research in ethical manner. In order to eliminate the ethical problem from the research, the researcher will also apply the right method to accomplish the research aims and objectives. The researcher will consider different factors like avoiding plagiarism, accurate referencing, and lack of data manipulation and follow the University instruction to complete the research in an ethical manner. In this, the researcher will keep confidential data of research participants as it would be effective to develop favourable relationship with them and achieve the desired result (Voogt, et al., 2013). Researcher will also use ethical act 2009 to avoid the ethical issues from the research study and get reliable result.         

A researcher will consider many factors to complete the research issues effectively. In the research study, there will be many factors that influence the research outcome like lack of resources, lack of cost, and estimated time. Moreover, the specified time structure can have a direct impact on the research outcome because it mandates the researcher to complete the whole research in a predetermined time period that will have a negative impact on the research result (Hill and Grossman2013). Beside this, it is also illustrated that the primary data collection method is time-consuming, which also has a direct impact on the accuracy of the research result. To eliminate the problem of research limitation, a researcher will use e-mail and surveys through questionnaires to obtain feasible results. It will also facilitate the researcher to establish a favorable relationship with clients and get the reliable outcome in the context of the research matter (Preston, et al., 2013).   

With respect to the timetable, it is found that the data collection method and final draft, proofreading and report writing takes more time as compared to other research activities like identification of research topic and establishing the research aims and objectives. Other research activities include questionnaire design, sample size section through sampling method, data analysis, final draft, proofreading, report writing and final submission.

Conclusion 

In relation to the above discussion, it can be concluded that educational leadership could directly influence the performance of the school. It can also be deduced that the researcher will practice the interpretivism philosophy for achieving the valid outcome in less time and cost. It is also illustrated that the researcher will use mixed data collection methods for attaining the research aims and objectives. Finally, it is noted that the researcher will use statistical analysis techniques for evaluating the collected data to attain a valid result.  

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