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Title: Role of Instructional Leadership


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Role of Instructional Leadership
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Purpose of Session
  • Explore the term Instructional leadership and
    what it means to our roles
  • Examine research of what is effective
    instructional leadership
  • Link instructional leadership to the current
    agenda regarding improvement, improvement
    improvement ..

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What is it?
  • Educational leadership
  • Curriculum leadership
  • Leader of learning
  • Transformation leadership
  • Transactional leadership
  • Its whats behind the title that matters!

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Background
  • Most popular theme in leadership over the last
    two decades
  • Origins in Northern America
  • Despite its popularity it is often not clearly
    defined

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Instructional leadership
  • Instruction the process or act of teaching
    education
  • Leadership a person who rules, guides, or
    inspires others
  • Collins Dictionary

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Leadership Matters!
  • A highly effective school leader can have a
    dramatic influence on the overall academic
    achievement of students.
  • Michael Fullan 2005

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Leadership Matters even more!
  • It is now more than 20 years since leadership was
    identified as one of the key components of good
    schools by HMI, who stated that, without
    exception, the most important single factor in
    the success of these schools is the quality of
    the leadership of the head.
  • Dept of Education Science

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Why the importance of this type of leadership?
  • Improved classroom instruction is the prime
    factor to produce student achievement gains
  • Odden Wallace

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Why the importance of this type of leadership?
  • Another great irony of public schooling is that
    the office of curriculum and instruction
    traditionally has so little influence on.
    curriculum and instruction. Results Now M
    Schmoker
  • Too much of the educational leadership
    literature is long on harmony, consensus and
    sentiment, feel good pressures that float high
    above the hard fundamental necessities of school
    leadership. Most especially, leaders need
    practical ways to monitor and require-effective
    instruction and high quality curriculum.
    Results Now M Schmoker

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Why the importance of this type of leadership?
  • When leadership is focused on results, on urging
    a formal, frequent review of the impact of
    instruction, teaching improves. Results Now
    M Schmoker
  • For school improvement to occur instructional
    leadership needs to be in existence.
  • A Mission of the Heart, Public Agenda

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What are the elements of Instructional Leadership
  • Resource provider, instructional resource,
    communicator and visible presence (Smith and
    Andrews)
  • Encourager, facilitator of the study of teaching
    and learning, facilitator of collaborative
    efforts amongst teachers, establishing coaching
    relationships with teachers, using research to
    make instructional decisions using adult
    learning principles (Blasé Blasé)

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What are the elements of Instructional Leadership
contd
  • Direct assistance to teachers in their day to day
    activities, development of collaborative groups
    amongst staff, designing effective staff
    development, curriculum development, use of
    action research
  • Glickman, Gordon and Ross-Gordon

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What are the elements of Instructional Leadership
contd
  • Defining schools mission, managing curriculum and
    instruction, promoting a positive school
    climate
  • Hallinger, Murphy et al
  • Understands effective practices in curriculum,
    instruction and assessment and the ability to
    work with teachers on the day to day problems
    that relate to these topics.
  • Elmore

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Process
  • Define Instructional Leadership
  • Share with partner

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Leadership Matters!
  • Sustainable leadership doesnt equivocate. It
    puts learning at the centre of everything leaders
    do. Students learning comes first, then everyone
    elses in support of it.
  • Stoll, Fink and Earl 2003

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Instructional Leadership Practice Viviane
Robinson 2007
  • Establishing goals and expectations
  • Strategic resourcing
  • Planning, coordinating and evaluating teaching
    and the curriculum
  • Promoting and participating in teacher learning
    and development
  • Ensuring an orderly and supportive environment

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Instructional Leadership characteristics David
Hopkins
  • Ability to articulate vision and values about
    student learning and achievement, and to make
    connections to behaviour
  • Understanding of pedagogy
  • Understanding of development and maintenance
  • Strategic orientation and to plan medium term

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Instructional Leadership characteristics contd
David Hopkins
  • Understanding capacity and its role in sustaining
    change
  • A commitment to promoting enquiry the how rather
    than the what
  • Commitment to professional development and
    managing a teachers life cycle
  • Ability to engender trust and provide positive
    reinforcement

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Connections to DIAf
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What does instructional leadership look like?
  • If you were to go into a school /preschool where
    there is effective instructional leadership what
    would you see, feel, hear?
  • Make a list of 8-10 concrete bits of evidence?
  • Would it look different in the different sectors
    ie preschool, primary, secondary?

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  • School improvement is most surely and thoroughly
    achieved when teachers engage in frequent,
    continuous and increasingly concrete talk about
    teaching practices... capable of distinguishing
    one practice and it's virtue from another.
  • Judith Warren
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