This online course offers convenient and practical professional development focused on the needs of all school leaders, whether you are thinking about applying for a school leadership role, whether you are starting in a leadership role or whether you are already in role and wish to reflect on experience.
Who should participate?
- Newly appointed principals
- Deputy Principals
- Aspiring school leaders /teachers
- Experienced principals who wish to reflect on their current practice
What skills will I learn?
Following the successful completion participants will be better equipped and more effective in dealing with the following areas of their new role:
- Effective & Sustainable School Leadership
- Relationships
- School Self-Evaluation Process
- Policies & Child Protection
- Essential Information
Course Aims
This course aims to assist participants to:
- Gain a deeper understanding of the role of school leadership
- Reflect on the characteristics and habits of effective leaders
- Reflect on leadership practice in their school
- Develop a deeper understanding of leading teaching and learning
- Benefit from the knowledge of experienced school leaders
- Approach their role with greater confidence and self-belief
- Increase self-awareness and work life balance.
- Have essential resources to hand in a user-friendly format.
- Lead the School Self Evaluation process competently and successfully through all its stages of school improvement
Course Structure
The course consists of five modules that guide you through your leadership role. During the course you will be asked to participate in moderated discussion forums with fellow participants. The course encourages participants to be interactive and to reflect both on the material presented and on their own professional experiences.
Along with the discussion forums, each participant must complete and pass all five assignments, in which participants are asked to contribute their views, opinions and experiences and to share good practice on issues related to each module and also to the overall theme of each course.
The course is primarily aimed at supporting and developing practising and aspiring school leaders’ knowledge and leadership skills, their interpersonal awareness and professional attitudes. All participants who participate in the course will be treated as independent adult learners.
Online tutors are allocated to the course and will interact with and support participants on each module’s discussion forums and assignments. While participants are offered guidance in course materials and are encouraged to participate in reflective exercises and discussion forums, each participant is wholly responsible for his/her own learning and interaction with the course.
Registration open on April 1st – 2026