Teacher Leadership That Strengthens professional Practice - Chapter 2, pg 12 - 27 “What Is Teacher Leadership?”
Questions: What does this mean for us as leaders?
You go into teaching because you love working with students - then move into leadership - challenge.
Teacher leaders aren’t administrators
Maintain relationships - work on it as you get
Journey without a specific destination
Managing change
Setting tone, culture, maintaining the vision
Wrap around system from other sectors
Staying current
How do we develop teacher leaders?
Letting them lead e.g. team meetings
Noticing passions and allowing someone to step up
Feeding them - PLD, quality injections
Knowing your teachers
What do you think?
Coaching
Finding their own answers rather than giving them answers
Growing capabilities
Mobilise others
Develop agency
Healthy culture
Forefront our vision and our mission
Interesting read particularly at this time of the year.
I need to keep reading this. I feel this year was the beginning for me. Getting my head back into senior school and subtly making changes that I know need to be changed. Whether it pedagogy, practice. This has been a trying journey at times. largely due to the physical environment and my location, time. All the issues out of my control.
The quote
“The litmus test of all leadership is whether it
mobilises people’s commitment to putting their energy into actions designed to improve
things. It is individual commitment, but above all it is collective mobilisation” (p. 9).
Most important factor attributed to student learning is the quality of teaching
SO unleash the expertise of my teachers not look at what they aren't doing right! Use this to enhance motivation and the willingness to go that extra mile!
