BARRIERS IN BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER

1. Lack of skills and trainings:

This is one of the very most common barriers in becoming an effective instructional leader,
because if you lack of skills and training, you will take a hard time on managing your subordinates
given the fact that you don’t know what to do and how to start. As the popular saying goes ‘you can’t
give what you don’t have.” Therefore, to be an effective leader, you must seek and join trainings, ask
some advice from your colleagues and join professional organizations for your own professional
growth.

2. Overlapping Activities/Overcrowded Agenda/high workloads.

Most of the time, There is really no enough time to finish our tasks on a single day. most
especially when there is an overlapping of activities and high workloads. This become a barrier to us
because, given the fact that we are not yet finish with our tasks and yet there is another task to be
done. That’s why our performance is being affected with this because we can’t deny the fact that this
kind of situations give us a lot of “stress”. And if we are stress, the more we cannot focus on our tasks
and be unproductive. Therefore, we must need to have a proper time management in order to deal
with this kind of situations.

3. Attitude of the teachers

Attitude of teachers/school head plays a vital role in an organization, because not all the
teachers have pleasant attitude towards their work and even treating their superiors, some of them
are hard headed who doesn’t easily comply those tasks given to them. And once they didn’t submit or
finish the task or report on time, it is the school heads responsibility to take over the job. Aside from
that, there are also teachers who disrespect and think they are better than their school heads.

4. Financial/Mooe Management

Mooe or money and other operational expenses is very important in each and every school.
because it serves as the fund for purchasing or paying school expenses, for repairs, teacher needed
materials and etc.

5. Teacher unionism

An organization must work as a whole. but we know that there is really no perfect organization.
Like in school, Some teachers have ‘‘FACTIONS”. they don’t have harmonious relationship between
each other for some reasons, namely the age gap, gender, positions, workloads, favoritism and etc.

6. lack of support from stakeholders.

Lack of support from stakeholders has its negative impact in an organization like school,
because they serve as a source of funds from donations and contributions, they also serve as man
power for maintaining the cleanliness of school and etc. so without them and their support, the road to
success of an organization is a bit difficult.

7. lack of motivation:

Lack of motivation is a barrier to effective instructional leader, because if you don’t have it, you
can’t fully work 100 percent in attaining your goals and objectives. Instead make some innovations to
motivate yourself and your subordinates. For example: in school Give your teachers some service
credits if they work beyond working days and hours, give some rewards and positive feedback if they
bring honor to the school like winning the contest as a coach, hep them to be promoted. Those are
just examples of ways that motivate your teachers to work well.

8. ICT integration

All of us know that we are living in a modern age, we live with gadgets and technology that
makes our work faster and easier. so, it is really important for all of us to be used with this. But we
can’t also deny the fact that there are still some teachers and school heads who doesn’t even touch
the computer or laptop and just let their teachers to do the job for them. So, to become an effective
leader you must learn how to use and to utilize these technologies for your own convenience.

Prepared by:
MYRA R. BALOMA