What leadership traits are important for educational or instructional leaders to possess? Why? Justify your response. More importantly, critique your own view of leadership traits. Is it accurate to claim that if an instructional leader possesses the traits you’ve identified, he or she will be an effective leader?

What leadership traits are important for educational or instructional leaders to possess? Why? Justify your response. More importantly, critique your own view of leadership traits. Is it accurate to claim that if an instructional leader possesses the traits you’ve identified, he or she will be an effective leader?

HINT: If you claim that having certain traits will result in more effective leadership, you need to support your opinion using solid academic research studies. For example, if you have good communication traits, will this mean that you’ll be a more effective leader? Be careful in your critique! You should be using sound, academic research for your assignments, including peer-reviewed research from appropriate journals. Peer-reviewed or refereed journals use a process of peer reviewing prior to publishing any work or article. Through peer reviewing, experts in the respective journal’s field or area of specialty assess the draft and provide the author with feedback. Only articles that have passed through this process are published in the journal, resulting in sound practice and scholarship in the field of study.

Not all scholarly journals go through a peer review process, but it’s generally considered that a peer-reviewed journal is also a scholarly journal. Scholarly journals include articles written by experts in a particular field and focus on pertinent research and academic study. Research studies in scholarly journals will include an abstract; introduction or purpose; description of the sample or subjects included in the study; the methodology used to analyze the sample; results or findings of the study; discussion and finally, the conclusion.

DO NOT confuse a peer-reviewed or scholarly journal article with a white paper, magazine article or professional journal article. DO NOT use wikis or blogs. If you don’t see the elements underlined above, it’s probably not an academic research article. Professional journal and magazine articles are useful, especially when discussing a specific technology or industry. However, they usually do Use appropriate documentation and research to support your analysis. See the information below for more details.
Maximum 5 pages – not including title page, references or appendices.
APA format is required. Minimum of 2 academic and/or professional references. not provide a scientific or experimental design approach to research.

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