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MODULE III
Chapter 8 ORGANIZATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
MODULE III
INTRODUCTION
This module introduces the philosophical thoughts on education, historical
foundation of education, social science theories and their implication to education.
This enables students to explore philosophical thoughts on education, the
relationship of society and schools, and the social science theories and their
implication to education.
OBJECTIVES
DIRECTIONS/MODULE ORGANIZER
There are three chapters in the module. Read each lesson carefully
then answer the exercises/activities to find out how much you have benefited
from it. Work on these exercises carefully and submit your output to your
instructor.
In case you encounter difficulty, discuss this with your instructor during
the meeting. If not contact your instructor during consultation hour.
Chapter 7
1. Are the traits shared in your small groups the ame traits that schools
and the larger community expect of professional teachers?
The very title of this unit indicates that teachers to be part of the community. To
be part of the community definitely means to participate in the life of that
community. What is that community referred to here? The 8 Sections of Article III
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of the Code of Ethics refers to the community within the school and the community
outside the school. How can teachers be a part of the community? The various
Sections of Article III give more details.
Article III. Section1 states that the teacher is a facilitator of learning and the
development of the youth... therefore shall render the best service by providing an
environment conducive for such learning and growth. Facilitator comes from the word
"facilitate” which means to make something easy or easier. You as the professional
teacher, facilitates the learning or make learning easier. Learning is a difficult task and
made easier when you make dry lesson interesting, exciting and enjoyable. As a
professional teacher, you make learning easier when you simplify the complex and
concretize the abstract. To facilitate learning, a conducive learning environment is
necessary. It has been proven that learners learn best in a pleasant environment. A
pleasant environment is where the learners can be themselves because teachers are
caring. No need to put best self forward because teachers and classmates truly care and
take you for who you are. All forms of bullying have no place in a conducive learning
environment. A conducive learning environment makes learners believe they can do the
work and they feel accepted. A favorable learning climate is not competitive where
everyone is tense. The teacher who believes that "Every child deserves a champion, an
adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and
insists they become the best they can possibly like Teacher Rita Pierson in TED Talk is a
facilitator of learning.
professional teacher ought to take the initiative to offer your help for the improvement
of the community. Many a time, vou can be a guidance counselor, a prayer leader,
commentator or reader in religious celebrations, fiesta coordinator, judge in or coach for
a contest, financial adviser, a nurse, a doctor, commentator, rolled into one. Providing
leadership and initiative also means working with the community. This means getting the
parents and other members of the community participate in school activities.
Teachers, as they participate in community affairs prove that they "are the most
responsible and most important members of society because their professional efforts
affect the fate of the earth."
Section 3 states: "Every teacher shall merit reasonable social recognition for
which purpose he shall behave with honor and dignity at all times and refrain from such
activities as gambling, smoking, drunkenness, and other excesses much less illicit
relations." Obviously, if as a professional teacher, you are an inveterate gambler, chain
smoker and alcoholic or if it is common knowledge that you are engaged in an illicit
relationship, how can you have moral authority? Who will listen to you when you advise
your class not to smoke, not to drink alcoholic drinks, not to gamble, etc? Your audience
will say "Look, who is talking!" It is a matter of "do what I say not what I do.”
Society expects so much of teachers that when they fail to live up to the challenge to
behave or model good behavior, they are "condemned without trial!" It is no wonder why
many are afraid to answer the call to teach. Society seems to expect much more from
professional teachers than from any other professional and so look at teachers with
scrutinizing eyes.
The quotation states "The influence of a good teacher can never be erased" but the
influence of a dishonorable teacher is as lasting.”
Section 4 expects every teacher to live for and with the community and shall,
therefore study and understand local customs and traditions in order to have a
sympathetic attitude therefore, refrain from disparaging the community. The
professional teacher is neither ethnocentric nor exocentric. He/she is not ethnocentric
and so does not look down on community's culture because of the thought that his/her
culture is superior to the culture of the community. Neither is he/she exocentric and so
looks at his/her inferior in to other community's culture. Fortunate and happy is the
community that has teachers to live with them, exert effort to understand their local
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customs and traditions and consequently appreciate the same. This author sees no
culture as perfect. Every culture including hers has its positive and negative aspects.
What we need to pass on are the positive aspects of the culture. We need to purify,
however, the negative aspects with teacher pointing them out tactfully and sincerely.
Section 5 states that the teacher "shall help the school inform the community
about the school's work, accomplishments, needs and problems. Community here refers
to internal as well as external stakeholders. Internal stakeholders include the students,
the parents of the students and the teachers. The external stakeholders are the other
parents in the community without children enrolled in school, barangay officials and
other government officials, non-government organizations, government organizations,
alumni/alumnae and retirees. Why do these stakeholders have to be informed? The
school is there for the community and so the community has the right to be informed
about its activities, accomplishments, needs and problems. Informing them about the
school’s projects, needs and problems to give them a sense of ownership. Having a sense
of ownership, these stakeholders will participate more actively in the resolution of
school’s problems and needs.
We have Parents' and Teachers' Associations (PTA) in place in every school. Some
private schools call it Home School Association Family Advisory Council. This is for
internal stakeholders only. A PTA is an association of teachers and parents with children
who are enrolled in a school. It is a forum for discussions on school problems and how
they can be solved.
In addition to PTAs are the School Governing Council in every public school. This School
Governing Council shares in the management of the school with School Head as Chair.
This School Council is another opportunity for communities to participate in school
activities.
Section 7 states: "Every teacher shall maintain harmonious and pleasant personal
and official relations with other professionals, with government officials and with the
people individually or collectively." As a professional teacher, you cannot afford not to
be in pleasant relations with others especially those with whom you work with like other
professional teachers. It is always best to be in good terms with everyone else in the
community.
Learning Activity 1
Cite at least 3 specific ethical behaviors of a professional teacher
based on Article III of the Code of Ethics for Professional Teachers.
Come up with a PowerPoint presentation.
Chapter 8
ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Organizational Leadership
In organizational leadership, leaders help set strategic goals for the organization
while motivating individuals within the organization to successfully carry out assignments
in order to realize those goals. In the school setting, the school leader helps set the
goals/targets for the school and motivates teachers, parents, learners, non-teaching
personnel and other members of the community to do their task to realize the school
goals.
Organizational leadership works towards what is best for individual members and what
is best for the organization as a group at the same time. Organizational leadership does
not sacrifice the individual members for the sake of the people nor sacrifice the welfare
of the group for the sake of individual members. Both individual and group are necessary.
Organizational leadership is also an attitude and a work ethic that empowers an
individual in any role to lead from the top, middle, or bottom of an organization. Applied
to the school setting, the school leader helps anyone from the organization not
necessarily from the top to lead others. An example of this leadership which does not
necessarily come from the top of the organization is teacher leadership.
A school head must be both a leader and a manager. A school head leads the
school and community to formulate the vision, mission, goals, and school improvement is
a leadership function. S/he sees to it that this plan gets well implemented on time and so
ensures that the resources needed are there, the persons to do the job are qualified and
available. This is a management function. Imagine if the school head is only a leader.
You have the vision, mission, goals and school plan but no implementation. The plan is
good only in paper. If you do the task of manager only, you will be focusing on the details
of the day-of-day implementation without the bigger picture, the vision and mission. It is
best that a school leader is both a leader and a manager.
Conceptual skill is the ability to think in terms of models, frameworks and broad
relationships such as long range plans. In short, conceptual skills deal with ideas while
human skills concern relationship with people and technical skills involves psychomotor
skills and things. The ideal school leader possesses all three.
S1 S2 S3 S4
Selling/Directing Telling/Coaching Participating/ Delegating
Supporting
Individuals lack the Individuals are more Individuals are Individuals are
specific skills able to do the task; experienced and experienced at the
required for the job however, they are able to do the task task and
in hand and they are demotivated for this but lack the comfortable with
willing to work at job or task. confidence of the their own ability to
the task. They are Unwilling to do the willingness to take do it well. They are
novice but task. on responsibility able and willing to
enthusiastic. not only do the task,
but to take
responsibility for the
task.
If the group member is able, willing and confident (high readiness), the leader uses a
delegating leadership style and turns over the responsibility for decisions and
implementation to the members. On the other hand, if the group members have low
readiness, i.e.. unable and unwilling, the leader resort to telling the group members what
to do.
Servant Leadership
Robert K. Greenleaf (1977) coined the paradoxical term servant leadership. How
can one be a leader when he/she is servant? That's the common thinking. But the paradox
is Greenleaf's deliberate and meaningful way of emphasizing the qualities of a servant
leader. He describes the servant
... servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. Then
conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. The best test is: do those served grow as
persons: do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more
autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the
least privileged in society; will they benefit, or, at least, not be further deprived?
(Greenleaf, 1977/2002, p. 27)
We often hear the term "public servants” to refer to appointed and elected officials of
the government to emphasize the fact that they indeed are servants of the people. Their
first duty is to serve and in serving, they lead. They don't think of their power as leaders
first. If they do, they tend to become more conscious of their importance felt over their
conscious of their power over their constituents and tend to impose that power or make
their importance felt over their constituents and forget that if ever they are given power
it is to serve their people.
Transformational Leadership
Robert Kennedy once said: “Some men see things as they are and ask why. I
dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”
Those who dream of things that never were and ask "why not” are transformational
leaders. The transformational leader is not content with status qou and sees the need to
transform the way the organization thinks, relates and does things. The transformational
school leaders see school culture as it could be and should be, not as it is and so plays
his/her role as visionary, engager, learner, collaborator and instructional leader. As a
transformational leader s/he makes positive changes in the organization by
collaboratively developing new vision for the organization and mobilizing members to
work towards that vision. To do this the transformational leader combines charisma,
inspirational leadership and intellectual stimulation to introduce innovation for the
transformation of the organization.
Sustaining Change
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Learning Activity 2
Based on this lesson and by means of an acrostic, give qualities or specific
behaviors of a good leader. See example below.
L
E
A
D
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S- Servant. He is a servant first before a leader.
Chapter 9
SBM is in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity which states that it is the
people at the lowest level who will know best their problems and so are in the best
position to address the same. This tenet holds that "nothing should be done by a larger
and more complex organization which can be done as well by a smaller and simpler
organization. In other words, any activity which can be performed by a more
decentralized entity should be done by that more decentralized entity."
https://action.org/pub/religion-liberty/ volume-6-number-4/principle-subsidiarity.
Those in the higher echelon are far removed from the scene and are therefore not as
involved and as informed as those from those below.
Advantages of SBM
The Philippine Constitution provides that Congress shall enact a local government
code that will institutionalize a system of decentralization (Article 10, Sec. 3) whereby
local government units shall be extended more power, authority… The local government
code in 1991 is a fulfillment of this Constitutional provision.
This means that long before the Department of Education (DepEd) legally introduced
decentralization in schools through School-Based Management (SBM) in 2001 through the
enactment of RA 9155, local government units were already empowered for local
governance. RA 9155, Basic Governance Act transfers the power and authority as well as
the resources to the school level.
Teachers, school heads must be given the opportunity to make choices. They must
actively participate in school improvement planning.
The involvement of parents and teachers must be strongly encouraged and highly
welcomed.
Stakeholders must participate in the development of a School Improvement Plan.
They must have a say on resource allocation to meet specific needs.
Higher authorities must actively encourage thoughtful experimentation and
innovation in an atmosphere where mistakes are viewed as learning experiences.
They must be willing to share their authority with the academic and the larger
community.
Teachers must develop reflection, problem solving.
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Learning Activity 3
Divide the class into 2 groups. Each group will simulate a meeting called by
the school head to address the following problems:
1) litter in the school grounds and classroom
2) bullying among students
3) poorly motivated students
Apply the principles of SBM. After each simulation, point out which act
was/was not in accordance with SBM principles?
1. Is SBM, if implemented the right way, an effective way to strengthen school and
community partnership?
A. Yes
B. No
C. Depends on size of school
D. Depends on school location
2. Which is an advantage of SBM?
A. Fast resolution of problems in school because school head decides
B. Sense of ownership of stakeholders
C. In accordance with decentralization law.
D. Total independence of schools
3. Which is the essence of SBM?
A. Reduced authority of school head
B. Absolute freedom of education stakeholders
C. Principal empowerment
D. School empowerment
4. For SBM to succeed, which must be present?
A. Effective school support system
B. Leader with a strong personality
C. Docile community
D. Low expectation
5. With SBM in mind, which does NOT belong?
A. Decentralized management
B. Devolution of power to schools
C. School empowerment
D. Centralized management
10. What must a leader do if s/he wants innovation to affect substantially and
positively school culture?
A. Sustain the innovation
B. Introduce innovation one after another
C. Ensure that the innovation is welcomed by all, no exception
D. School head is the origin of the innovation
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