Share Paper: How a validation process improved simulations created for principal development

  1. Marlena Bravender, Saginaw Valley State University, United States
  2. Nancy Staub, University of Toledo, United States
Monday, June 22 11:35-11:55 AM Salon Lamartine

Abstract: Leading, facilitating, and making decisions (ELCC, 2011) are central to school leadership positions. Decision-making simulations provide graduate students a vehicle for increasing their practice and fine-tuning leadership skills with guided support from college faculty. In this action research study, professors of educational administration participate in a validation process to review decision-making simulations constructed by practicing school leaders. The findings from this study are used by the instructors to improve the simulations so that they may become a mentoring tool for interns in a principal preparation program.