Teacher Leadership: Ideology and Practice

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Teacher Leadership Ideology and Practice

• Ann Lieberman
• Ellen R. Saxl
• Matthew B. Miles

By Jeffrey Buchanan Helen Reyes EDUC
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Why do we need teacher-leaders?

• To foster collegiality and commitment

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Exodus 18

• Moses and father-in-law, Jethro
• Taught them
• Empowerment
• Delegation

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Diagram A Interaction of the
Worldview Model Components
Christ the Creator (Colossians
114-16) Individuals Under Lordship
(Phil. 29-11)
Philosophical Base Col 28 Epistemological Ethica
l Axiological Aesthetics
Nature of Man Trinitarian (See Chart One)
Acceptance/Rejection (I Cor. 214-16)
Application
Evolutionary Worldview Beliefs Consequences
Romans 1
YEC Worldview Beliefs
Dr. Steve Deckard
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• Biblical references to leadership and examples
• Christ as a leader
• Compassionate
• Servant
• Christian leaders are continual learners.
  Proverbs 1014 Wise men store up knowledge, but
  the mouth of a fool invites ruin
• Christ led his apostles by serving them (washing
  their feet). Paul says we are to serve. Ephesians
  67 although this was written about a
  slave/master relationship it applies to this
  situation. Serve wholeheartedly as if you were
  serving the Lord, not men.
• Christian leaders model appropriate values.
  Philippians 49 Whatever you have learned or
  received or heard from me, or seen in me put it
  into practice. And the God of peace will be with
  you.
• That modeling will not always be immediately
  accepted by those being led. Romans 1212-13 Be
  joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful
  in prayer. Share with Gods people who are in
  need. Practice hospitality
• A leader should listen sympathetically to those
  he leads. I Peter 38 Finally, all of you, live
  in harmony with one another be sympathetic, love
  as brothers, be compassionate and humble.

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Key term

• Teacher leader-
• Is characterized by a way of thinking and acting
  that is sensitive to teachers, to teaching and to
  the school culture.

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Key Quote

• The gain is mostly in the personal and
  professional learnings of the leaders themselves
  the technical learnings about teachers,
  instruction, and curriculum the social learnings
  about schools as social systems, including how to
  build collegiality and manipulate the system to
  help teachers do a better job the personal
  learnings about their own professional competence
  as they learn new skills and abilities and find
  new approaches to being a leader among their
  peers and even, in some cases, the satisfaction
  of learning how to create structures that alter
  the culture of the school.
• (Liberman, Saxl, Miles, p. 363-364, in
  Jossey-Bass on Educational Leadership).

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Analysis of Quote

• Change in perspective
• Old school New culture
• Embrace new challenges, solutions

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Think About the Quote

• How can these gains among the leaders themselves
  help the entire faculty?
• How can one be accepted as both a leader and a
  peer?
• How does this relate to Sergiovannis
  transformational leadership components?

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Teacher-Leader Skills

• Broad range of teaching skills
• Master teachers
• Curriculum background
• Life-long learners
• Risk-takers
• Strong
• Caring
• Compassionate

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Building Colleagueship

• Building trust and rapport
• Organizational diagnosis
• Dealing with process
• Using resources
• Managing the work
• Building skill and
• confidence in others

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Issues or Problems

• Technical learnings
• Social learnings
• Personal learnings
• Initial hostility
• Conflict of being peer and expert
• Negotiation from
• position of leadership

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On the job learning

• Learning about school culture.
• Learning how to gain acceptance from
  teachers/principals.
• Self-learning.

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Key Quote

• The gain is mostly in the __________ and
  __________ learnings of the leaders themselves
  the __________ learnings about teachers,
  instruction, and curriculum the __________
  learnings about schools as social systems,
  including how to build collegiality and
  manipulate the system to help teachers do a
  better job the __________ learnings about their
  own professional __________ as they learn new
  skills and abilities and find new approaches to
  being a leader among their peers and even, in
  some cases, the __________ of learning how to
  create structures that alter the culture of the
  school.

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Analysis of the quote

• How can these learnings benefit the entire
  organization?
• What difficulties can be associated with gaining
  these learnings?
• How does this relate to Sergiovannis
  transformational leadership components?

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Proverbs 1813

• He that answereth a matter before he heareth it,
  it is folly and shame unto him.