Professional Redevelopment: Interruptions In Knowledge Management,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Professional Redevelopment: Interruptions In Knowledge Management, Joe Procter
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Learning organizations are a strategic response to increased competition due to globalization (Amy, 2007; Dodgson, 1993; Senge, 2006; Tsang, 1997). Organizations that are able to utilize the ideas and energy of their employees are better prepared to operate in a global economy. An understanding of cross-cultural knowledge management for learning organizations is highly relevant and adaptive to a variety of industries because learning is a continuous process for any organization. Educators are important leaders in the development of participants in the global economy. Studies of cross-cultural management in learning organizations inform education and prescribe methods of knowledge management for efficient …
Professional Development For College Students In Tough Economic Times: The Drexel University Co-Op Program Model,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Professional Development For College Students In Tough Economic Times: The Drexel University Co-Op Program Model, Megan Elrath, Joseph Hawk, Nancy Leclair
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The United States is currently experiencing a financial recession with large and lasting consequences. College students and recent college graduates have certainly felt the impact of the current recession. The staff and faculty at Drexel University’s Steinbright Career Development Center (SCDC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania have developed many initiatives to help both graduating seniors and students enrolled in our cooperative education program land meaningful, relevant employment opportunities. One initiative aims to provide our co-op students with the most effective preparation to not only secure jobs, but to excel at those jobs and make lasting positive impressions on their employers. To accomplish …
Re-Visiting Secondary School Science Teachers Motivation Strategies To Face The Challenges In The 21st Century,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Re-Visiting Secondary School Science Teachers Motivation Strategies To Face The Challenges In The 21st Century, Jacobson Nbina
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Education is considered as the most valuable tool for human building. FRN (2004) make it clear that government recognizes education as the greatest investment that the nation can make to bring about civilization, modernization, development and socio-economic progress.
Promoting Effective Home-School Connections For The English Language Learner,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Promoting Effective Home-School Connections For The English Language Learner, Meredith Gibbons
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
It was a typical day as a reading specialist in Mrs. Kyle’s second grade classroom. It was an energetic classroom of twenty-four students in a small school situated just outside of an urban school district. As Mrs. Kyle instructed the rest of the group, I sat with a small group of remedial reading students in the back of the room. It wasn’t uncommon for a large percentage of English Language Learners (ELL) to be referred to the reading specialist, and subsequently, qualify for reading support services. These students typically received a considerable number of additional services, including reading, ELL instruction, …
Rebranding Nigeria Through Educational Process For A Better Future: A Call For Policy Review And Development For Creating Standards In Business Education,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Rebranding Nigeria Through Educational Process For A Better Future: A Call For Policy Review And Development For Creating Standards In Business Education, Kayode Bolarinwa, Lukman Adeola, Sunday Ojetunde
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Business education is vital for success in virtually every career. All citizens must apply business skills and concepts to meet the challenges of a changing society and workplace (Smith, 2006). Business instruction is organized to prepare individuals for occupations in administrative office systems, accounting and finance, management, and computer information systems. It is the enterprise of education directed at the study and research of the field of business. It includes secondary education and higher education or university education, with the greatest activity in the latter. It is often or almost always oriented toward preparing students for the practice of an …
Reclaiming Moral Development Through A Course Development Rubric,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Reclaiming Moral Development Through A Course Development Rubric, Timothy Daughterty, Lisa Johnson
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Moral development (growth in personal and social responsibility) was originally a primary goal of higher education in the United States and continues to be cited in many college catalogs, but few institutions currently make a commitment to intentionally addressing personal and social responsibility through the core experiences of their students (Hersh & Schneider, 2005). The processes of specialization and fragmentation, along with the pursuit of value-free inquiry, have led institutions to retreat from investing in moral development as a component of robust liberal education (McNeel,1994). As “colleges and universities are increasingly under pressure to offer educational programs of immediate economic …
Relationship Between Principals And Teachers’ Perceptions Of Principals’ Performance Of Staff Development And Students Personnel In Secondary Schools, Delta Central Senatorial District, Nigeria,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Relationship Between Principals And Teachers’ Perceptions Of Principals’ Performance Of Staff Development And Students Personnel In Secondary Schools, Delta Central Senatorial District, Nigeria, E.D. Nakpodia
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The success of any organisation solely depends upon the quality and efficiency of its staff personnel , who perform the functions necessary for the fulfilment of stated goals and objectives. These assumptions is as applicable to the school system as it is to any organisation involving human efforts. The extent to which the quality of education succeeds will depend strictly upon the quality of the personnel engaged in the educational process, and upon the effectiveness with which they carry out individual and group responsibilities. (Nakpodia, 2006)
School Accreditation: An Opportunity For Administrator Professional Development,
2010
Fort Hays State University
School Accreditation: An Opportunity For Administrator Professional Development, Trudy Salsberry, Annie Diederich
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
School accreditation is generally viewed as a means of assuring quality in terms of programs, personnel, services, and operations. Accreditation in P-12 schools is generally conducted by state agencies and/or non-profit organizations. One prominent non-profit organization, Advanced, is now “involved with 23,000 public and private schools and districts in 30 states and 65 countries and serving nearly 15 million students. This organization is generally considered one of the world’s largest educational communities and the recent creation of Advanced is the beginning of a new journey in the century-long histories of the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement …
Strategizing For Economic Rehabilitation And Self-Reliance In Nigeria: The Need For Indigenous Technology,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Strategizing For Economic Rehabilitation And Self-Reliance In Nigeria: The Need For Indigenous Technology, Jacobson Nbina, B. Viko
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Technology may be defined as modern machines, equipment, tools and associated knowledge, techniques may be defined as modern machines, equipment, tools and associated knowledge, techniques and processes involved in the making, using and maintaining these gadgets in producing goods and services for man’s consumption. It is technology viewed thus, that accounts for the speed of delivery, the quantity and quality and other attributes of goods and services which a modern society enjoys. Indigenous technology means technology as defined above with the additional condition that it is developed by an indigenous people (in this case Nigerians) through a process that would …
Tao And The Lost Art Of Leadership,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Tao And The Lost Art Of Leadership, Scott Paynton
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
I often tell people that I am literally a lifetime student of academic leadership. I grew up watching my father navigate his career in the academy as a professor of Sociology, including serving as Department Chair. Much to his pleasure I followed suit, pursuing a fun and challenging career as a professor of Communication in the same state university system. Over the course of my journey in academe, I’ve observed, and participated in, almost every level of academic leadership. From serving as chair of too many committees to remember, Department Chair, Vice-President of the Academic Senate, University Ombudsperson, and now …
Teacher Factors In The Implementation Of Universal Basic Education Programme In Junior Secondary Schools In The South Senatorial District Of Delta State, Nigeria,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Teacher Factors In The Implementation Of Universal Basic Education Programme In Junior Secondary Schools In The South Senatorial District Of Delta State, Nigeria, E.D. Nakpodia
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The idea of universal Education was first mooted in 1955 when the universal primary education scheme was inaugurated by the government of Western Nigeria. The Eastern Nigeria government launched its own universal primary education in 1957. In Northern Nigeria, education was provided free by government in a bid to make children attend school (Adeyemi, 2007). Thus, at its onset, the universal primary education scheme had been undertaken by regional government. There was no Federal Government intervention until 1976 when the universal primary education (UPE) was launched to cover the whole country.
Teachers’ Qualification On Instructional Objectives Preference And Performance.,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Teachers’ Qualification On Instructional Objectives Preference And Performance., Chinelo Duze
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
This study involved teachers who participated in a short in-service training course in Data Management and Processing organized for science teachers by a private computer training school in Anambra State of Nigeria during one of the long vacations. The programme was designed to upgrade and update participants’ knowledge, skills, and competence in Data Management and Processing, thereby enhancing their effectiveness and efficiency as teachers and administrators in managing school data and statistics for educational policy and programme implementation. Set objectives were expected to be accomplished at the end of the programme. To achieve this, the various units to be studied, …
Technological Innovations And In The Banking Sector: An Evaluation Of The Rate Of Diffusion Of The Automated Teller Machine,
2010
Fort Hays State University
Technological Innovations And In The Banking Sector: An Evaluation Of The Rate Of Diffusion Of The Automated Teller Machine, Igwe Chinedu
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The internet widely regarded as the third wave of revolution, (after the industrial revolution and the agricultural revolution) heralds the age of electronic revolution and is fast becoming the central nervous system of a universal consumer marketplace and an essential means of conducting and coordinating business activities. For the banking sector, the internet marks the transition from the brick and mortar stage of banking to the branchless stage. In a word, Information Technology (IT) has moderated the constraints of time, space, and information access in world trade and commerce as a whole. The growing popularity of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) …
The Enriched Environment: Making Multiple Connections,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Enriched Environment: Making Multiple Connections, Timothy Clapper
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
One only has to reflect on what it took them to learn and master an activity and a few things may come to mind. Perhaps the activity was learning Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), and if so, the process for learning the task, really learning it, involved making many associations with the task. In line with constructivism, the instructor likely began the course by transferring-in what the learner knew about cardiac arrest or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. As a learner, this may have caused one to reflect on a real or televised event that included chest compressions and rescue breathing. For the teacher who …
The Garage Of The Ivory Tower: The Importance Of The 21st Century Education Doctorate,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Garage Of The Ivory Tower: The Importance Of The 21st Century Education Doctorate, Joshua Barnett, David Carlson
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Making decisions about how to prepare students and teachers for the 21st century is a complex endeavor, and preparing the leaders of America’s schools – those responsible for leading the some 15,000 school districts, three million public education teachers, and 50 million public education students – is perhaps most complex of all. Educational administrators, like teachers, juggle competing interests and negotiate with multiple stakeholders simultaneously. Generating sustained school change often necessitates implementing policies that are rarely able to account for the varied and potentially competing issues that are situated locally. Therefore, preparing school leaders means providing them with the necessary …
The Influence Of Communication On Administration Of Secondary Schools In Delta State, Nigeria,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Influence Of Communication On Administration Of Secondary Schools In Delta State, Nigeria, E.D. Nakpodia
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Communication system in any organisation like the school is very vital to the survival and smooth running of the organisation. It is a universal activity in one form or another between people at all times in their lives with the exception of a few religious orders. Within an organisation it is formalised as social interaction and is measured by its total amount, its frequency, which initiates it, the degree of reciprocity and its directions, upwards, downwards or sideways, among the members. In all organizations, the transfer of information from one individual to another is absolutely necessary. It is the means …
The Language Policy And Practice Of Tanzania And Singapore: What Lessons For Nigeria, Africa.,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Language Policy And Practice Of Tanzania And Singapore: What Lessons For Nigeria, Africa., Olufunson Fasanami
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
Language makes a people. If a language is lost, the identity of the race is lost. Language is a universal concept and there is no society in the world where language is not used for communication. Many linguists have defined language as a means of communicating, ideas, thoughts, emotions and information, among others. The human race is imbued with the gift of verbal language, apparently, intelligible language for communication. There are other types of communication like the signs, symbols, gesticulations, braille for the blind and other non verbal communication media.
The Influence Of Instruction On Leadership,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Influence Of Instruction On Leadership, Courtney Gehret
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
For decades, researchers have been studying leadership and have found it to be very difficult to fully understand. A basic knowledge of leadership is available, but the details are hard to specify. These details include the complexity of the construct of leadership (Bass & Stogdill, 1990), the difficulty of forming a single definition or theoretical perspective from many possible options (Edmunds & Yewchuk, 1996; Simonton, 1995), and the lack of valid and reliable measures of leadership ability (Edmunds, 1998; Jarosewich, Pfeiffer, & Morris, 2002). All of these issues make researching leadership difficult because it is hard to gain new knowledge …
The Meaning Of Scientific Literacy: A Model Of Relevance In Science Education,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Meaning Of Scientific Literacy: A Model Of Relevance In Science Education, Jacobson Nbina, B.J. Obomanu
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The term ‘scientific literacy’ has been used in the literature for more than four decades (Gallagher & Harsch, 1997), although not always with the same meaning (Bybee, 1997). It is a simple term and its major advantage is that it sums up, at the school level, the intentions of science education. The term scientific literacy avoids the use of distracting detail and, as such, convincingly portrays a complex idea which intuitively appears to be correct (Baumert, 1997). Baumert recognises that the core of the idea behind scientific literacy lies in its analogy with literacy.
The Origin, Notions, Extent And Outcome Of Bilingualism: Implication For Effective Teaching And Learning Of English Language In Nigerian Junior Secondary Schools,
2010
Fort Hays State University
The Origin, Notions, Extent And Outcome Of Bilingualism: Implication For Effective Teaching And Learning Of English Language In Nigerian Junior Secondary Schools, Ruth Adebile
Academic Leadership: The Online Journal
The meaning and definition of bilingualism varies tremendously from one situation to the other. The Webster Dictionary (1961) defines bilingualism as having or using two languages especially as spoken with the frequency characteristics of a native speaker; a person using two languages especially habitually and with control like that of a native speaker.
