You will contact an Educational Leader (not necessarily from your anticipated context) and interview them, asking them the 10 questions posted to the Canvas site in the Assessment box. You are interviewing an Education Leader in order to learn from their experience about the realities of leading in today’s complex, ever changing educational organisations, to give you a view of what it is like from ‘the inside’. Once you have interviewed them, write up the interview and lodge into Canvas by the deadline.

Note: It is not necessary that you know the person you are interviewing. You can conduct the interview over the phone, via Skype, or in person. Interviews should take about 30 minutes.

Questions for leadership interview task

1) What type of life experiences/background have you had that has shaped you as an educational leader?

2)Who were the significant people in your life who influenced your role as a leader?

3) Why and how did you become interested in leadership?

4) Talk about ONE pivotal event or turning point you have had that has changed who you are as a leader?

5) What was your “vision” when you came into your current role? How did you communicate this to others? How do you help others develop their leadership potential?

6) What do you have a burning desire to accomplish in education as a leader that you haven’t already?

7) What has been your greatest source of satisfaction, and or dissatisfaction in a leadership role?

8) What have been the major personal sacrifices or costs of the leadership position or positions you have held?

9) How important do you think leadership is in bringing about changes in education? Explain.

10) What is the source of your passion to effect change in education?