Saturday 7 November 2015

LDC: Reconceptualising Leadership

Wayne Freeth: University of Canterbury

It is not just about the Leadership Team but there is a 'sleeping giant' of teachers who can make change to improve student learning.

Teacher Leaders :

  • Show expertise in their teaching and share knowledge with others
  • Are constantly looking for ways to improve their teaching
  • Reflect on their teaching to improve learning
  • Engage in action research projects
  • Collaborate with colleagues, parents and communities about effectiveness of action
  • Socially conscious and politically involved
  • Mentors new teachers
  • Involved in university or teacher pre-service training
  • Are risk-takes who are involved in school decisions

To encourage teacher leaders, the principals need to:














His concept was that seeing 'knowledge' as a verb and employing 'distributed leadership' could form a starting point from where we could develop mere effective and equitable schools.




















Summary: 
The NZNC challenges us to think deeply about core values and beliefs but the effort required to make change is underestimated.

Challenges:
Leadership structure works against shared leadership and autonomous actions.

Schools are getting on with the task but sometimes without a shared deep understanding or cohesive plan.

The over-loading of teachers reduces any participation in deeper thinking about the meaning of the curriculum and its nature within their school.















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