EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP

How Might Leadership can Improve Teacher's Professional Practice?

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How Might Leadership can Improve Teacher's Professional Practice?

Introduction

Educational leadership or teacher as a leader is a vision of helping teachers and recognize their deepest feelings and motivations, to look inside in search of their own self-consciousness. This raises a teacher as a leader, who willingly makes preparation to turn the educational process as a dynamic, expressive and transforming way to transform the society. Educational leadership means breaking with the scheme of truths "petrified". This will put students in position of having to deal with paradoxes, conflicting philosophical positions and the implications that derive from their own beliefs and behaviours.

Schools are institutions that need a very special way, a leadership that enhances the fidelity and harmony in personal relationships. Much of the work of the teacher passes without direct control; understanding the importance of control will aid in enhancing the teaching skills of a teacher (Ackerman, Katzenmeyer & Moller, 1996). Leading and managing the complicated current educational system demand simple traits in a teacher like participatory decision making, influencing the attitude and beliefs of students which will enhance the effectiveness of teaching by equipping student with knowledge of the modern world. For this, the teacher as a leader has to clarify and quantify the responsibilities. The leader must know and listen to the institution and personnel integration, enhancing the expression of feelings and opinions, and to secure a space - time to express them. It is widely accepted that the leader has to foster teamwork (Byron, 2004). Positive leadership is the ability to inspire others in significant doses of passion, energy and above all enthusiasm. This paper in connection will explore the importance of leadership in teaching skills, whereas, the effective leadership style in teaching will also be determined. The paper will centre focus on exploring the strategies of how might leadership can improve teacher's professional practice?

Discussion and Analysis

The group or a class room is the basic unit that provides the opportunity to exercise leadership. So, the leader's influence will be evident in the utilities to get the group and each individual. It has been argued that due to the selection that made the group, leadership will always be the person that most closely matches the average of the standards of that (Guskey & Erkens, 2009). Anyway, the leader must reach the level that the group needed to avoid the frustrations within the unit with the subsequent results: moral depression, destructive criticism, internal dissension and general deterioration. If the above is moved to the classroom as a space, a human group that requires command, the teacher becomes a leader. The teacher will represent the interests of the hall, take the group to achieve its interests, form the cohesion among them, maintain order, will encourage and motivate you to move on. Because of this, does the teacher will be a leader? I think the answer is obviously yes. But all teachers will be leaders? How a person ...