Master of Educational Leadership Program Overview
The Master of Educational Leadership Program at
Dar Al-Hekma University seeks to meet the needs of the educational sector in the Kingdom by qualifying its students to take the lead in educational institutions and to be the front-runners in the teaching and learning processes for the development of the local community. For that purpose, the program empowers the students to construct the relevant knowledge and acquire the needed advanced skills with advanced knowledge and skills, with a high focus on critical, analytical, and creative thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. The program is the first in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that provides tracks with different interfaces along with fresh and advanced leading-edge courses and materials under the umbrella of educational leadership, in line with the rapid progress that the Kingdom is witnessing in achieving the while realizing Saudi Vision 2030. This postgraduate program is designed to respond to the challenges women often face in planning and participating in higher education such as the confidence gap, the stress gap, and the economic gap. This program will instrumentally enrich the academic field with women's contributions by producing leaders and brilliant supervisors of educational institutions, local organizations, and the society in general. Accordingly, Dar Al-Hekma University aims to meet the needs of society and the country at large by training and graduating women who are able to efficiently and competently work to improve the country and the region.
Teaching and Learning Track
This track aims to enable students to construct complex knowledge and acquire advanced knowledge and skills related to all the components of the teaching and learning processes, namely, teaching strategies, classroom management, student counseling, and partnerships between schools and the local community in order to achieve excellence in teaching and learning.
Educational Leadership Graduate Attributes
- Specialists
- Educational initiators
- Educational researchers
- Promoters of academic success
- Developers, designers, and evaluators of academic programs
- Life-long learners
- Flexible and creative leaders
- Thinkers open to the opinions of others
- Analysts and critics
Program Mission
Preparing qualified educational leaders to create a learning-teaching environment with a clear vision to support scientific research, analytical, critical, and creative thinking skills, and employ modern technologies to contribute to the development of the local community.
Program Goals
- Enhancing awareness of the vision, mission, and educational goals in educational institutions.
- Supporting academic, professional, ethical practices, integrity, and responsible trustworthy citizens in educational institutions.
- Creating partnerships among all stakeholders in educational institutions to develop the local community and find solutions to relevant issues.
- Providing students with opportunities to acquire educational leadership skills and modern technologies based on theories and recent developments in the field.
- Stimulating the skills of analytical thinking, critical thinking, planning, creativity, problem solving, decision-making, and effective communication in educational institutions.
- Providing modern digital technologies to support educational leadership practices and the learning-teaching process.
- Providing learning resources and databases to promote scientific research in the field of educational leadership, learning, and teaching.
- Providing an advanced infrastructure that is compatible with the latest developments in the field.
- Strengthening educational assessment, evaluation processes, and related policies in the field of educational leadership, and in learning and teaching.
Why choose the Master of Educational Leadership program at Dar Al-Hekma University?
- The Master's Program in Educational Leadership is the first of its kind in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to introduce different tracks under educational leadership.
- It is the first to introduce new courses related to educational leadership to keep pace with the rapid progress in all educational institutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to contribute to Vision 2030.
- The plan of study of the program is characterized by the integration of educational leadership courses with the new courses while focusing and strengthening thecomponunt of educational components.
- The plan of study of the program is also distinguished for keeping a balance between the theoretical and the practical aspects, in terms of depth and comprehensiveness.
- The program provides a rich learning environment based on promoting creative and critical thinking.
- The educational strategies and classroom activities adopted by the program are distinguished by being student-centered to meet students' needs and aspirations.
Admission Requirements
Programs
| TOEFL Score
| Required Bachelor
Degree
| Pre-Requisite Program
| Othe Admission Requirement
|
|---|
Master of Educational Leadership
(Teaching and Learning Track)
| Not Required
| A Bachelor Degree in
Any Field
| None
| Pass Interview.
Proficient in Arabic
Language.
One year of experience in
Education Field.
|
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Plan of Study
|
Year One(1) |
|---|
|
Semester – One |
Semester – Two |
|---|
Course Code |
Course Title |
Credit
Hours |
Course Code |
Course Title |
Credit
Hours |
| EDLS 6301 | Educational Leadership | 3 | EDLS 6302
| Curriculum Development and Evaluation
| 3 |
EDLS 6308
| Educational Psychology:
Learning Theories
|
| 3 | EDLS 6305
| Educational Technology
| 3 |
| EDLS 6303 | Educational Ethics
and Laws | 3 | EDLS 6307 | Educational Assessment
and Evaluation | 3 |
| EDLS 6304 | Organizational Behavior | 3 | EDLS 6308
| Research Methodology
| 3 |
|
Total Credit Hours |
12 |
Total Credit Hours |
12 |
|
Year Two(2) |
|---|
|
Semester – One |
Semester – Two |
|---|
Course Code |
Course Title |
Credit
Hours |
Course Code |
Course Title |
Credit
Hours |
EDLS 6306
| Leadership and Teacher
Professtional Development
| 3 | | Elective Course from
the Selected Cluster (track course)
| 3 |
EDLS 6313
| Research Seminar
| 3 | EDLS 6310 | Research Project | 3 |
| Elective Course from
the Selected Cluster(track course)
| 3 |
| Elective Course from
the Selected Cluster (track course)
| 3 |
|
Total Credit Hours |
12 |
Total Credit Hours |
6 |
|
Course Code |
Course Title |
Credit Hours |
|
EDTL 6301 |
Instructional and Learning Strategies | 3 |
|
EDTL 6302 |
Managing Classroom and Student Behavior
| 3
|
EDTL 6303
|
Psychology and Counselling | 3
|
EDLD 6303
| Fundamentals of Special Education and Inclusion
| 3
|
EDLS 6311
| Leading Innovation and Change
| 3
|
|
EDLS 6312 | School - Community Partnership
| 3
|
Career Prospects
The program equips students with the necessary skills that qualify them for a variety of career paths/jobs in the market including, but not limited to:
- Educational leader for schools, educational centers, and educational and community institutions.
- Administrative leader of community centers and institutions.
- Educational supervisor in private schools and in educational supervisory departments in the Ministry of Education. .
- Specialist in the field of planning and development for institutions and centers in the field.
- Director of educational development projects in civil, international, and community institutions and organizations.
- Educational initiator who is able to put forward educational initiatives and lead them to achieve their goals.
- Faculty member or administrator in institutes, colleges and universities, or a teacher in schools.
- Quality manager in educational institutions, assessment and evaluation bodies, and at the Ministry of Education.
