Educational Leadership and Ethics

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This paper briefly discusses a personal and professional structure of professional values and beliefs that are important for being a successful school leader. It looks at the tradition or ethical school from which those values and beliefs spring and discusses the ethical principles of a professional educational administration organization. The paper also discusses how the principles of that organization are comparable to the writer's own values. The paper contains appended original sources.

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"It is often asked of prospective young teachers - or those who wish to school administrators - what their professional values and beliefs are. In my own case, I feel that one's personal and professional values should be one and the same. In other words, a teacher and/or administrator who strives to be honest and compassionate in the classroom and in the school environment should also strive to be honest and compassionate in his or her personal life, as well. With that in mind, I feel the following values and/or beliefs are integral to a person being a good citizen and a good teaching professional: honesty, empathy and conscientiousness, a willingness to consider new ideas and perspectives, a sense of duty, selflessness, and a commitment to excellence. If a member of the professional school community has all of these qualities, he or she will be both a strong person and a professional able to shape primary and secondary school students in positive ways. As a school leader, I want to make my school just the sort of place where the qualities enumerated above can flourish."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Foundation for Educational Administration. (2007a). Candidate self-assessment: Knowledge and understanding. NJEXCEL: Expedited Certification for Educational Leadership. Retrieved July 8, 2007 from <http://www.njl2l.org/documents/Self-Assessment(KU).doc>
• Foundation for Educational Administration. (2007b). New Jersey: Leaders to Leaders. Welcome to New Jersey Leaders to Leaders. Retrieved July 8, 2007 from <http://www.njl2l.org/index.aspx>
• Kennedy Townsend, Kathleen. (1990). Not Just Read and Write, but Right and Wrong; Our Schools Need to Teach Values Too. Washington Monthly, 21(12): 30+. Retrieved July 8, 2007 from Questia database <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000112950>
• Lamont, Corliss. (2007, June 9). The affirmative ethics of humanism. Retrieved July 8, 2007 from <http://www.corliss-lamont.org/ethics.htm>

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