Realize Teacher Leadership is essential.
Teacher leaders have been in our schools for decades. Their leadership occurs behind the scenes, connecting the dots for others, mentoring, coaching, and advocating for other teachers and themselves. Teacher leaders are first and foremost teachers. Teacher leaders do not aspire to become administrators. Instead, they opt for a career of serving others in the classroom; a commendable life of service to others. In many cases, teacher leaders prefer the classroom over an office and value the behind the scenes work that creates an effective school environment for students and teachers.
A teacher leader is the quintessential leader who knows and understands the importance of shared leadership, through creating a culture of collaboration. The teacher leader is empowered to lead through collaboration and empowered by others instead of concentrating on organizational charts and job titles. Though the role of a teacher leader may not be a formal title in school or in a school district, teachers informally recognize them as leaders within their departments, schools and districts.
Teacher leadership is critical in all schools. As mentioned earlier, schools are just too complex today not to have some type of collaborative leadership construct. Through teacher leadership, school administrators empower teachers to play a role in leading the school, facilitating change, engaging stakeholders, and empowering others to lead. By enabling teacher leaders to be a part of the collaborative leadership constructs, the complexities that confront education can be alleviated.
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Teacher leaders have been in our schools for decades. Their leadership occurs behind the scenes, connecting the dots for others, mentoring, coaching, and advocating for other teachers and themselves. Teacher leaders are first and foremost teachers. Teacher leaders do not aspire to become administrators. Instead, they opt for a career of serving others in the classroom; a commendable life of service to others. In many cases, teacher leaders prefer the classroom over an office and value the behind the scenes work that creates an effective school environment for students and teachers.
A teacher leader is the quintessential leader who knows and understands the importance of shared leadership, through creating a culture of collaboration. The teacher leader is empowered to lead through collaboration and empowered by others instead of concentrating on organizational charts and job titles. Though the role of a teacher leader may not be a formal title in school or in a school district, teachers informally recognize them as leaders within their departments, schools and districts.
Teacher leadership is critical in all schools. As mentioned earlier, schools are just too complex today not to have some type of collaborative leadership construct. Through teacher leadership, school administrators empower teachers to play a role in leading the school, facilitating change, engaging stakeholders, and empowering others to lead. By enabling teacher leaders to be a part of the collaborative leadership constructs, the complexities that confront education can be alleviated.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [email protected]
All rights reserved. Information from this excerpt may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission from K12TeacherLeadership.