Professors teaching in advanced education institutions need to possess the right instructional leadership skills in order to be effective in their roles and in helping their students achieve success in their respective careers.

If you’re passionate about your job as professor of graduate studies and if you’ve already earned your master’s degree, it would be a good idea to pursue a doctoral degree. Northcentral University is one institution that offers advanced degree programs in an online format. It’s very convenient for the working professionals who can still continue with their jobs while pursuing their studies at the same time.

The instructional leadership specialization focuses on research, theory and practices that can be applied to higher education. The goal of research and analysis in this doctoral program is to determine future directions of higher education in the national and global level. It also aims to provide students with knowledge on developing policies and implementing educational reforms.

For this program, specific courses included are the culture of learning, educational research methodology, statistics in educational research, leader as advocate and decision maker, leader as community advocate, qualitative and quantitative methods, advanced educational statistics, developing instructional strategies and curriculum, leadership for student achievement and practices in school organization.

Through this Doctor of Philosophy in Education (PhD) Instructional Leadership program, students will gain more knowledge on their role as leaders in their institution and community in general and will learn the right ways to make important decisions. They will be trained on developing positive leadership skills that can they apply in their organizations and in establishing relationships with stakeholders to improve educational operations.