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Name: A Snail Mail In-Basket Gets a Delivery Update
ID: m14557
Language: English (en)
Summary: For years, principal pre-service programs have employed in-basket simulations to provide learning experiences that reflect the realities of a school administrator’s work day. In-basket exercises afford graduate students opportunities to explore such leadership skills as organizing and prioritizing tasks, managing time, making decisions, taking initiative, practicing interpersonal skills, delegating responsibilities, and monitoring and following up on actions (Nowack, K. M., 1993). In order to replicate as closely as possible how communication is practiced in today’s schools, the delivery of a traditional in-basket exercise (Gorton, Alston, & Snowden, 2007) was repackaged as the Principal’s Inbox Simulation in one principal preparation program. The basic premise of the traditional in-basket remained intact, but the delivery of the in-basket was updated to reflect the way communication is practiced in today’s schools; that is, to mirror as closely as possible a principal at his/her desk responding to messages in their email in-box.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: education leadership, in baskets, NCPEA, university preparation
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Shelly Albritton (shellya@uca.edu)
Copyright Holders: Shelly Albritton (shellya@uca.edu)
Maintainers: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (tcreigh@vt.edu), Shelly Albritton (shellya@uca.edu)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: May 30, 2007 8:20 am GMT-5
Last revision to module: May 30, 2007 1:21 pm GMT-5
Module XML: m14557_1.1.cnxml

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Version: 1.1 May 30, 2007 1:21 pm GMT-5 by National Council of Professors of Educational Administration
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new version, NCPEA

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