EDUC 638 August 29, 2013 Reflective Blog

EDUC 638 August 29, 2013 Reflective Blog

This week assignment In Hall’s book “The technology director’s guide to leadership: The power of great questions” (2008), present great information on how to be effective leader in technology. Like many I wonder how you can be effective in leadership. What key factors to look for in being a leader or their just one set rule to follow. According to The Director’s guide to Leadership, by Don Hall, Max begin question his leadership role in his position that he eagerly accepted. However we will struggle with some weakness in becoming a successful leader. At some point in our life we will display some great quality as well as some weakness in trying to be an effective leader. While reading I learn that there are different kinds of leaders that Halls project to his readers. Throughout the world leadership such as educators, pastor, parents, University and others leader are preparing to give it best quality as a leader.

In the Technology Director’s Guide to Leadership, by Don Hall, he states that “Success is not usually achieved through accident or trails and error. True, you can learn lessons through those methods, but they are slow and costly. It’s better to have a plan”. (Hall, 2008). Nevertheless hall focuses upon the Leadership Continuum Model (LCM) which portrayed a particular aspect of the archetypes. Now these three leadership types are Sage, Sensei, and Oracle. The stage represents the authoritarian type of leadership, the sensei represents the dual role of mentor and the facilitator, and the oracle leadership type lives primarily in the global and abstract ideas. We learn in Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology, by Picciano, he focus on the importance of planning fundamentals. He highly recommends that the educational administration must plan.

As we learn before we must have goals and plan which is a key factor in this chapter. (Picciano, 2011) When using technology for promoting and planning educational needs it can set the motion of an excellent leader skill.My world view focus on Picciano when he incorporated how we should focus on the importance of planning fundamentals. I agree with Picciano that we must learn to plan because this is a key factor. Just like Christ he presented a plan for salvation for all mankind. In the bible different plans was given to structure many buildings for society. This was all done by planning and making sure everything was correct in its form.

Reference

Hall, D. (2008). The Technology Director’s Guide to Leadership. Eugene: ISTE.

Picciano, A. (2011). Educational Leadership and Planning for Technology (5^th ed.). Upper Saddle River: Pearson.