EFFECTIVE SCHOOL

MECHANISM TO IMPROVE
SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT
Factors that make school effective…

• Quality of Leadership
• High Expectations of Students and Teachers
• Ongoing Evaluation of Student’s Performance
• Goals and Direction
• Secure and Organized
• Size of the School
 (RE)DEFINE SCHOOL
LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES
(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide higher degrees of autonomy with appropriate support

School leaders need time, capacity and support to focus on the

practices most likely to improve student learning. Greater
degrees of autonomy should be coupled with new models of
distributed leadership, new types of accountability and training
and development for school leadership.
(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Redefine school leadership responsibilities for

improved student learning
(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Redefine school leadership responsibilities for

improved student learning

1. Supporting, evaluating and developing teacher

quality

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(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Redefine school leadership responsibilities for

improved student learning

2. Goal-setting, assessment and accountability

(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Redefine school leadership responsibilities for

improved student learning

3. Strategic financial and human resource management

(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Redefine school leadership responsibilities for improved

student learning

4. Collaborating with other schools

(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop school leadership frameworks for improved

policy and practice

School leadership frameworks can help provide

guidance on the main characteristics, tasks and
responsibilities of effective school leaders and signal the
essential character of school leadership as leadership for
learning.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES OF
SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

• Managing the curriculum and teaching program

Schools have a high degree of responsibility in decisions

related to curricular issues.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

• Teacher monitoring and evaluation

School leader involvement in classroom observation and

feedback seems to be associated with better student
performance
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

• Supporting teacher professional development

The importance of “developing people” to improve teaching

and learning

Organisational learning and student outcomes also showed the

importance of ongoing, relevant professional learning
opportunities (Mulford et al., 2004).
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES OF SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

• Supporting collaborative work cultures

The importance of “developing people” to improve teaching

and learning

Organizational learning and student outcomes also showed the

importance of ongoing, relevant professional learning
opportunities (Mulford et al., 2004).
 Redefine school leadership
responsibilities for improved
student learning
(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

a) Encourage school leaders to support, evaluate and develop

teacher quality

Teacher quality is probably the most important school-level

determinant of student performance (OECD, 2005) and school
leadership focused on improving the motivation,
capacities and working environments of teachers is thus most
likely to improve student learning.

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(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

a) Encourage school leaders to support, evaluate and develop

teacher quality

• Strengthen school leaders’ responsibility in curricular

decision

• Provide training for school leaders in teacher monitoring and

evaluation
(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

a) Encourage school leaders to support, evaluate and develop

teacher quality

• Enhance the role of school leaders in teacher professional

development

• Encourage school leaders to promote teamwork among

teachers
(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

b) Support goal-setting, assessment and accountability

• Provide school leaders with discretion over strategic

direction setting
• Promote “data-wise” leadership
• Encourage school leaders to distribute tasks related to
assessment and accountability within schools
(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

c) Enhance strategic financial and human resource management

• Enhance the financial management skills of school

leadership teams

• Involve school leaders in teacher recruitment decisions

(RE)DEFINE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

d) Adopt a systemic approach to leadership policy and practice

• Develop opportunities for school leaders to cooperate

actively with surrounding schools

• Encourage the distribution of leadership responsibilities

within schools
 HOW TO ENSURE SCHOOL
MECHANISMS ARE IN PLACE
HOW TO ENSURE SCHOOL MECHANISMS ARE IN PLACE

Develop school leadership frameworks for improved policy and

practice

• Build on commitment not compliance

• Provide definitions of school leaders’ major domains of
responsibility
• Use frameworks to provide coherence to different domains
of school leadership
• policy:
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