Introduction

Effective Leadership in
Education

Carmel S. Micallef

Introduction 1
COMMUNITY LEARNING

THE
CONCEPT
and
IMPLICATIONS

IN PRACTICE:
A FOREIGN OUTLOOK

IN PRACTICE:
THE LOCAL PROCESS

Introduction 2
 Lecture Plans
• Recall of previous lecture and introduction
• Lecture cum discussion
• Presentation by a group of students re
foreign school network system
• Time management
20 mins recall and intro
125 mins lecture & students’ interventions
15 mins break
20 mins students’ presentation
Introduction 3
 Part One

Teacher Leadership and School Improvement

– Alma Harris

– Leadership for school improvement

– Distributed leadership
– Teacher leadership
– Teacher leadership in action

Introduction 4
Part Two
Building the Capacity for Leading and Learning
– David Hopkins and David Jackson

• School Capacity
• School Improvement
• Capacity – an exploration
• Capacity – a framework
• The role of networks in supporting school
improvement and building capacity
• Implications for leadership – distributed
leadership as capacity building
Introduction 5
Part Three
Capacity-building, School Improvement
and School Leaders – Mark Hadfield

• Whole-school capacity-building and school

improvement
• Capacity-building in practice
• School leaders and capacity-building at
the level of individuals and teams
• Building up and breaking down groups
Introduction 6
 Part Four
Professional Learning Communities and
Performance Training Sects
– Andy Hargreaves

• The knowledge society

• Teaching and learning in the knowledge society
• Cultures of knowledge – contracts of performance
• Professional learning communities
• Performance training sects

Introduction 7
Part Five

For All Children to Succeed – MEYE

• Achievements and challenges

• Central education entities
• Networking of schools
• Centralisation to decentralisation

Introduction 8
Part Six

• Pilot Project Power Point Presentation

June 2005

• Pilot Project Power Point Presentation

August 2006

Introduction 9
 (Schein, 1997, pg. 5)
• “If one wishes to distinguish
leadership from management
or administration, one can
argue that leaders create and
change culture, while
managers and administrators
live within it.”
Introduction 10