Chapter 5: Gifted Education in Mainland China: How It Serves a National Interest and Where It Falls Short

The professional questions I receive most often center on the logistics of clinical simulations. At times, colleagues investigate my association with SUNY Upstate Medical University and ask, “How can I do this if I’m not close to a medical school?” Others ask, “How will I find the technologies and actors needed for these simulations?” The biggest hurdle to implementing clinical simulations for novice school leaders is not logistical. Instead, it’s the conceptual hurdle that individuals must cross. When school leader educators and colleges of education decide to prepare novice school leaders differently, the hard part is over.

This chapter is grounded in the assumption that the reader is interested in implementing simulations within a school leader preparation or professional development context. In the pages to follow, I discuss the logistics of organizing cohorts of SIs and school leader participants, acquiring and utilizing technologies to record the simulations, and differentiating simulation experiences according to the career stages (i.e., preservice or induction stage) of school leaders.