SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE SINALOA
Centro de Estudios de Idiomas LDII
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP 2013
“Is School Leadership the solution in ELT SCHOOLS?”
Is School Leadership the solution in ELT SCHOOLS?
That it is a complex question and Leadership a complex subject.
I would like to start up by saying that throughout the history of education the responsibility of the school´s operation has fallen to a single individual, The Principal. Who used to handle all matters, and his authority was a law that must be respected and followed without taking any other neither personnel advice nor decision. His role was very broad and almost impossible to perform since he needed to be educational visionaries, instructional and curriculum leaders, assessment experts, disciplinarians, community builders, public relations experts, budget analysts, facility managers, special programs administrators, and expert overseers of legal, contractual, and policy mandates and initiatives as referred in the unit 2 study guide package.
Principal candidates and existing principals are often ill-prepared and inadequately supported to organize schools to improve learning while managing all of the other demands of the job (Young, 2002; Levine, 2005).
Nowadays, the principal of the schools is no longer the only leader because we are more concern to see schools improvements in educational outcomes to meet students needs, and to see teachers as an integral part of the institution playing different roles and working as part of a team following a positive, enthusiastic, caring, and good values leader while they are learning or becoming leaders too, making this a huge challenge.
Meeting these challenges asks more and different things of school leaders. In the view of many people inside and outside education, continuing to lead schools as they have been lead for a century simply won’t do. Leading and learning have new dimensions that demand new skills, new
Centro de Estudios de Idiomas LDII
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP 2013
“Is School Leadership the solution in ELT SCHOOLS?”
Is School Leadership the solution in ELT SCHOOLS?
That it is a complex question and Leadership a complex subject.
I would like to start up by saying that throughout the history of education the responsibility of the school´s operation has fallen to a single individual, The Principal. Who used to handle all matters, and his authority was a law that must be respected and followed without taking any other neither personnel advice nor decision. His role was very broad and almost impossible to perform since he needed to be educational visionaries, instructional and curriculum leaders, assessment experts, disciplinarians, community builders, public relations experts, budget analysts, facility managers, special programs administrators, and expert overseers of legal, contractual, and policy mandates and initiatives as referred in the unit 2 study guide package.
Principal candidates and existing principals are often ill-prepared and inadequately supported to organize schools to improve learning while managing all of the other demands of the job (Young, 2002; Levine, 2005).
Nowadays, the principal of the schools is no longer the only leader because we are more concern to see schools improvements in educational outcomes to meet students needs, and to see teachers as an integral part of the institution playing different roles and working as part of a team following a positive, enthusiastic, caring, and good values leader while they are learning or becoming leaders too, making this a huge challenge.
Meeting these challenges asks more and different things of school leaders. In the view of many people inside and outside education, continuing to lead schools as they have been lead for a century simply won’t do. Leading and learning have new dimensions that demand new skills, new