WELCOME TO THE

COURSETeacher Leadership

EDTE6024

I AM YOUR COURSE PRESENTERDR. ROSE DAVIES

I LOOK FORWARD TO .... Interacting with you during the course, and

Learning as much from you as I hope you will learn from me

Your full participation is what will make this course “happen” for us so, Let’s get started !

ABOUT THE COURSE... Teacher Leadership is an emerging

concept that emphasizes the critical role of classroom teachers in helping schools become more successful in improving student performance and overall school improvement .

OVERALL GOALS... This course aims to: Provide participants with the knowledge,

skills and dispositions to influence school culture, facilitate excellence in practice, build successful teams and improve student achievement.

Provide participants with an opportunity to develop and practice their leadership skills through implementing a mini-project designed to improve student, teacher or organizational learning.

LEARNING OUTCOMES...At the end of this course participants

should be able to: Present a rationale for teacher leadership. Analyze organizational factors that

influence teacher leadership. Demonstrate relationship building skills

needed to function professionally as a teacher leader

Design, organize, and conduct focused professional development activities

LEARNING OUTCOMES... Conduct a range of teacher leadership

activities including modelling best instructional practices, preparing position papers, being an advocate, encouraging community involvement & partnerships

Conceptualise, plan, execute and reflect on a small-scale improvement project

Synthesize, analyse and apply the principles, theory and skills learnt in this course to their work in a professional setting

COURSE UNITS....Unit 1: The Nature of Teacher

Leadership Understanding the purpose and

contexts of teacher leadership Continuum of teacher growth and

development Roles, responsibilities and realities:

organizational and cultural opportunities and barriers

Critical issues for teacher leaders

COURSE UNITS... Unit 2: Domains of Influence Teaching and learning School-wide policies and programmes Community relations How teacher leaders make a difference Self-assessment: Developing a

professional identity as a teacher leader.

COURSE UNITS...Unit 3: Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

Important for Teacher Leadership Organisational diagnosis Expertise in pedagogical content knowledge Influencing tactics Building human relations: communication, trust

and rapport Creating a vision for improved practice,

engendering commitment Group dynamics, team building and collaborative

structures Shared decision-making  

COURSE UNITS... Unit 4: Teachers Leading Learning

in Communities of Practice Professional Development within

Learning CommunitiesLeading and shaping the contexts and

processes of professional learningCharacteristics of learning communitiesEnergizing and maintaining learning

communities in schoolsThe role of critical friends and peer group

feedback Coaching and mentoring

UNIT 4 CONT...Instructional Leadership

Analysing the setting to resolve programmatic and instructional problems

Reviewing school/department instructional practices against benchmarks of best practice

Data-driven and research-driven decision making Using classroom-based action research to inform

practice The Master Teacher process

  

COURSE UNITS... Unit 5 Facilitating School

Improvement Leading site-based school improvement

initiatives, accreditation and other exercises

Collaborating with parents and the wider school community

Advocacy activities, Union work etc

TEACHING METHODS

Lecture/Discussion; Role play; Group presentations; Case study analysis; Field exercises; Independent study; Self and peer evaluation

COURSE ASSESSMENT

This course will be assessed by coursework only and will include

examination of teacher leadership literature e.g. critical review, reaction paper, position paper (20% - 2000 words)

portrait of an effective teacher leader in practice (25% - 2500 words)

an action plan and oral presentation of a mini-project that involves leading others and supports the attainment of an objective in the school/department improvement plan. (I5% - 1500 words)

a ‘teacher leader’ report or a written portfolio based on the mini-project to demonstrate the breadth and depth of their growth and learning

RESOURCES ... See Recommended references in course

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