Education
Instructional leadership
Identify five current trends related to instructional leadership. Explain which trends may be applicable and effective for your organization.
How does your organization interpret and utilize trends as a vehicle for improving instructional leadership?
What are the benefits and challenges of using a social media trend as a communication tool for improving the quality of instructional leadership in professional settings?
How can the challenges be alleviated?
Diversity in Program Evaluation
Evaluators represent tremendous diversity in terms of educational and professional backgrounds. What are the advantages and disadvantages of diversity to the field of program evaluation?
Qualitative research
This week, you will submit the annotation of a qualitative research article on a topic of your interest. Narrative, ethnographic, grounded theory, case study, and phenomenology are examples of types of research designs or approaches used in qualitative research.
An annotation consists of three separate paragraphs that cover three respective components: summary, analysis, and application. These three components convey the relevance and value of the source. As such, an annotation demonstrates your critical thinking about, and authority on, the source topic. This week’s annotation is a precursor to the annotated bibliography assignment due in Week 10.
An annotated bibliography is a document containing selected sources accompanied by a respective annotation of each source. In preparation for your own future research, an annotated bibliography provides a background for understanding a portion of the existing literature on a particular topic. It is also a useful first step in gathering sources in preparation for writing a subsequent literature review as part of a dissertation.
National Mental Health
Your assignment should be two- to- three pages (excluding title and reference pages). Include at least two references to online sources and at least one peer-reviewed journal article that was published within the last five years found at the Ashford online library. All sources must be formatted according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford University Library.