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INTRODUCTION:
Instructional Leadership- is one of the useful tools in creating a forward-looking, student-centered school environment.
- can be defined as “those actions that a principal takes, or delegates to others, to promote growth in student
learning.”
- the principal’s responsibility to work with teachers to define educational objectives, to set school-wide or
district wide goals, provide the necessary resources for learning, and create new learning opportunities
for students and staff.
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP: CONCEPTS AND VIEWS
Bird and Little (2008) Instructional leadership refers to specific branch of educational leadership that addresses
curriculum instruction.
MacElwain (1992) views instructional leadership as imperative to prove instruction and student achievement.
Elmore (2002) Instructional leadership is the “organizational glue” that keeps thing in track.
Barth (2001) ….. is not exercised by one person but one person does create a condition through which all
teachers and administration become more responsible for their professional learning and important role in
sustaining school improvement.
Shares
Uses data to make leadership
Taps expertise of teachers
instructional
Visits classroom
Acts as learners
Collaborates in Leading
Checkley (2000) argues that rather than focusing closely upon teacher supervision and evaluation as the crucial tasks
associated with providing instructional leadership, principals should instead consider the following;
1. Encourage and promote teacher growth and development within their own ranks.
2. Engage teachers in sustained discourse whereby, as colleagues, teachers can define what student learning should
look like.
3. Identify instructional approaches that will support their vision.
4. Be attentive to teaching and learning and to work together and improve both
5. Foster the conditions through which teachers can specify instructional goals.
6. Direct the overall effort by offering teachers the support, encouragement and challenges they need as teachers
collaborate together toward achieving more substantive goals.
The Instructional Leader: Traits and Behaviors
Super-
visionary
Chief
learning Culture
officer builder
Heroic
Values-led leader
Practicing
teacher
PREPARED BY:
JANICA G. TATOY
BSE 4ENGLISH