INSTRUCTIONAL

LEADERSHIP
BECOMING AN EXEMPLARY
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER
 LEADERSHIP

• THOSE ACTIONS THAT A PRINCIPAL TAKES OR

DELEGATES TO OTHERS, TO PROMOTE
GROWTH IN STUDENT LEARNING
 INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
• BECAME THE DOMINANT PARADIGM FOR
SCHOOL LEADERS. IT WAS PRINCIPAL
CENTERED OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY IMAGES
OF HEROIC LEADERS SINGLE HANDED
KEEPING THE SCHOOL ON TRACK.
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP: CONCEPTS
AND VIEWS
MacElwain (1992) – imperative to improved instruction
and student achievement.
Barth (2001) - instructional leadership is not exercised
by one person but one person does create a condition
through which all teachers and administrators become
more responsible for their professional learning and
important role in sustaining school improvement.
 INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP: BEST
PRACTICES
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER
USE DATA TO MAKE INSTRUCTIONAL SHARES LEADERSHIP

TAPS EXPERTISE OF TEACHERS

MONITORS CURRICULUM &INSTRUCTION

ACTS AS LEARNERS
VISITS CLASSROOM COLLABORATES IN LEARNING
 SHARE LEADERSHIP

• To attain school vision requires intensive and

sustained collaboration. A key responsibility
of instructional leader is to sustain learning.
This could be best accomplished through
leading learning endeavors that are focused
on long term outcomes.
 TAP THE EXPERTISE OF TEACHERS
• Instructional leaders set the direction and
influence the members of the organization to
work together toward meeting
organizational goals. Principals can
accomplish this essential responsibility by
providing individual support, challenging
teachers to examine their own practices and
serving models of best practice.
 COLLABORATE IN LEADING

• Principals collaborate with teachers to

evaluate issues related to curriculum,
instruction and assessment. Teachers provide
valuable insights and ideas to principals as
they work together toward school
improvement.
 LEAD A LEARNING COMMUNITY

• Principals must become role models for

learning while continually seeking tools and
ideas that foster school improvement. Simply
put, schooling is organized around two key
functions (1) teaching and learning (2)
organizing for teaching and learning.
PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS AS LEARNERS

• Effective principals make student success

pivotal to their work and accordingly pay
attention to and communicate about
instruction, curriculum and student mastery
of learning objectives and are visible in the
school.
 USE DATA TO MAKE INSTRUCTIONAL
DECISIONS

• Data sources inform and guide action or at

least they should. Without meaningful data it
is impossible to monitor and evaluate the
effectiveness of school initiatives.
 MONITOR CURRICULUM AND
INSTRUCTION
• There are good reasons to focus on school
leadership. The importance of the principal’s
role has never been greater, taking into
consideration national accountability
standards for schools and the likelihood that
principal job vacancies will increase in the
near future.
 VISITS CLASSROOMS

• Principals build trust by supporting and

nurturing teacher development by providing
feedback that helps teachers to improve.
 CONVENTIONAL AND INNOVATIVE
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
CONVENTIONAL INNOVATIVE
• Principal centered • Persons centered – create collegial
• High focus on curriculum and instruction
relationships with and among teachers

• Setting clear goal

• Focus on School Based Management

• Allocating resources through

• Shared understanding of the goals
instruction • Providing the resources needed for
• Monitoring lesson plan
learning to occur

• Evaluating teachers for improvement in

• Deep involvement in the form of core
technology of teaching and learning
teaching
• Carries more sophisticated views of
professional development
 CONVENTIONAL AND INNOVATIVE
INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP
KNOWLEDGE CONFIDENCE ENTHUSIASM

Includes awareness of Drives interpersonal Includes the ability to

chains management relations, bring all stakeholders
theory, insight into communication, together to act
personal capabilities planning, decision
knowing when to get making and conflict
help from outside management
resources and staying
involve with other
leaders of educational
advancement