Author : Angela Nix McHenry
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN :
Author : Robert J. Miller
Publisher :
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 50,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
The purpose of this paper was to test the relationship between principals' instructional leadership and teacher collaboration around instruction to determine whether these measures were statistically related and whether, together, they were associated with academic achievement in elementary schools. Data were obtained from 1605 teachers in 96 elementary schools where principals are participating in a randomized control trial to assess the efficacy of a widely disseminated professional development program for school leaders. Using structural equation modeling, we found a significant direct effect of instructional leadership on teacher collaboration and a significant direct effect of collaboration on student achievement. Also, the indirect effect of leadership on student achievement through teacher collaboration was significant. These findings have implications for practitioners and researchers. An appendix presents: Leadership and Collaboration Factor Scale Measurement Properties. (Contains 6 tables and 1 figure.) [The research reported here was conducted by the Education Leadership Research Center (ELRC) at Texas A&M University as part of the School Leadership Improvement Study (SLIS).].
Author : Matthew J. Jennings
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475863284
Teacher leadership has many potential benefits for colleagues and students. Unfortunately, due to unsupportive conditions and a lack of professional training, these benefits frequently do not materialize. To succeed teacher leaders require a conducive school culture, supportive school administrators, time to complete responsibilities, appropriate incentives and recognition and feedback designed to improve performance. In addition, highly effective teacher leaders participate in high quality professional learning intended to prepare them to fulfill their roles and responsibilities. This professional development prepares teacher leaders to utilize effective interpersonal skills, diagnose and manage school culture and politics, lead professional growth activities, provide instructional leadership and assist with human resources management. This book provides the reader with both strategies for creating supportive conditions and the knowledge and skills required to meet the challenges of teacher leadership.
Author : Robert J. Marzano
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1935542362
Bridge the great divide between distanced administrative duties and daily classroom impact. This book introduces a top-down power mechanism called defined autonomy, a concept that focuses on district-defined, nonnegotiable, common goals and a system of accountability supported by assessment tools. Defined autonomy creates an effective balance of centralized direction and individualized empowerment that allows building-level staff the stylistic freedom to respond quickly and effectively to student failure.
Author : Steve Ventura
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 17,95 MB
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1416631208
What if you had a collaborative process of looking at student data that could pinpoint student gaps in learning and suggest effective strategies to close those gaps? What if you knew not only what you should start doing to enhance student learning, but also what you should stop doing because it hasn't given you the hoped-for results? Enter Achievement Teams. This is not another program that's here today and gone tomorrow; it's a timeless approach that any school or district can replicate that focuses on the most significant variable in student achievement: teaching. In Achievement Teams, Steve Ventura and Michelle Ventura offer a framework based on John Hattie's Visible Learning research that makes teacher collaboration more efficient, rigorous, satisfying, and effective. Think of it as a systematic treasure hunt for best practices using real data on your students. The authors walk you through the Achievement Teams four-step meeting protocol: * In Step 1, teams focus on the evidence from a pre-assessment to provide specific feedback to students and teachers about concepts and skills that students did and did not learn. * In Step 2, teams use that evidence to establish SMART goals for both teachers and students. * In Step 3, teams summarize the collected data and make inferences around students' mastery levels. * In Step 4, teachers select high-impact strategies directly targeted to student needs. A post-assessment reveals what did and didn't work. The authors provide a plethora of resources along the way, including reflection activities to extend your thinking and a variety of helpful downloadable templates designed to facilitate the work. If you're a teacher or leader who is interested in maximizing student achievement, this book is for you.
Author : Monic Onethia Fleming
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN :
ABSTRACT: This study examined teachers retention as it relates to (a) teaching experience, (b) teacher effectiveness, and (c) Green's (2010) 13 core competencies (i.e. visionary leadership, curriculum and instruction, assessment, reflection, unity of purpose, diversity, inquiry, collaboration, professional development, professionalism, instructional leadership, organizational management, and learning community) that a successful school leader should possess in 21st century schools. Data was collected from 314 teachers from public and private schools across the state of Tennessee. Data chowed that, although collectively the 13 competencies did not have a significant effect on a teacher's decision to remain at their current schools from year-to-year, a number of the individual behaviors were found to correlate with teacher retention. Relationships were also found between teacher effectiveness and retention. The findings of this study (a) add new dimensions to the research on educational leadership, (b) serve as an impetus for leadership to examine their practice, and (c) may help increase the retention of effective teachers.
Author : Cassandra Erkens
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1934009946
The time of exclusive top-down leadership is over! Only teachers can transform education from inside the classroom, and this book defines best practices of collaborative teacher leadership. Specific techniques, supporting research, expert insight, and real classroom stories illustrate how to work together for student learning, create a guaranteed and viable curriculum, and use data to inform instruction.
Author : Shawn Terese Martin
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2009
Category : School principals
ISBN :
Author's abstract: While it may seem that in today's society, the leaders of the school should primarily concentrate on curriculum, assessment, and accountability, there is one significant missing piece that is just as important: school culture. Recent educational reform efforts have focused on creating effective school cultures as a means of improving student achievement. Because the role of the principal is viewed as being essential to the successful implementation of these efforts, the demands on school leaders have continuously increased, which have created a multitude of challenges for school leaders across the nation. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the leadership style of principals and school culture as perceived by faculty. A total of 250 teachers from 50 elementary, middle, and high schools located in five school districts in the state of Georgia were selected to participate in this study. Data for this quantitative study were collected using the School Culture Survey, which assessed the following six factors of school culture: collaborative leadership, teacher collaboration, unity of purpose, professional development, collegial support, and learning partnership. In addition, the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire Form 5X was used to classify the leadership styles of principals as transformational, transactional, or laissez-faire. The means, standard deviations, and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients were used to examine the relationship between the variables. The results of this study indicated that there was a statistically significant relationship between most of the factors of the leadership styles of principals and the factors of school culture. More specifically, the findings indicated that a positive relationship existed between all of the factors of transformational leadership and all of the factors of school culture. In addition, one factor of transactional leadership, contingent reward, was positively correlated with school culture. On the contrary, a negative relationship existed between all of the factors of laissez-faire leadership and all of the factors of school culture.
Author : Sandra Reid Ervin
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Teaching teams
ISBN :
Author : Harris, Alma
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0335208827
Focusing on the ways in which leadership can be fostered and enhanced, this text argues that teacher leadership is an instrinsic and important part of school and classroom improvement, as well as considering the roles, responsibilities and influences of teachers who lead.
