constructive leadership for school improvement

REASONS

1.OUTCOMES ARE CRUICIAL

Local state and federal achievement standards for ambition as learning of all children have changed the landscape of educational accountability. Pressure is actors at all levels .In this time leaders are being accountable for how well teachers teach and how much students learn.

2. THE ENVIONRMENT IS MORE COMPLEX

Educational leaders must guide their school through the challenges posed by an increasingly complex environment .They must manage other collaborations with other agencies that serve children .

Functions of constructive leadership

1. Providing direction 2. Exercising influence 3. Works with others to create a

shared sense of purpose and direction

4. Help to establish the condition that enable others to be effective .

Successful constructive leadership

Leadership having significant effect on students learning , second only the quality of curriculum and teachers instruction.Help the school to become a professional learning community to support the performance of all key workers ,including teachers and students .Identify and implementing forms of teaching and learning that are appropriate and effective for the populations they serve .Can promote equity and justice for all students by establishing school climates where patterns of discrimination are challenged and negated .

Setting directions 1.Identify and articulating a vision .Creating shared meanings .2.Creating high performance of expectations.3.Fostering acceptance of group goals.4.Monitoring organizational performance .Communicating .

1.Identifying and articulating a vision Effective constructive leaders help their schools to develop about the best thinking about teaching and learning .

2.Creating shared meanings

Constructive leaders help to create shared meanings to support the school vision School effectiveness and improvements are enhanced when both internal and external members share their understandings.

3.Creating high performance expectation Effective constructive leaders convey their expectations for quality and high performance .They sharpen the perceptions of the gap between what the school aspires to and what is presently being accomplished

4.Fostering the acceptance of group goals.

Constructive leaders work to promote cooperation and assist others to work together for common goals. This will increase the improvement of the school.

5.CommunicatingSkillful constructive leader's focus attention on key aspects of the school vision and communicate the vision clearly and convincingly.

Developing people 1.Offering intellectual stimulation.

2.Providing individualized support

3.Providing an appropriate model.

1.Offering intellectual stimulation

Constructive leaders encourage reflection and challenge their staff to examine assumption about their works .

Constructive educational leaders shows respect to all staff concern about their feeling and needs .

2.Providing individual support

3.Providing appropriate modelThey set examples for staff and others to follow that are consist ant with school values and improvement of the schools.

Developing organization

1.Strengthening school culture 2.Modifying organizational structure 3.Building collaborative processes4.Managing the environment.

1.Strengthening school culture Constructive leaders help to develop school culture that embody shared norms values beliefs and attitudes that improves the school .

2.Modifying organizational structure

Constructive leaders monitor and adjust the structural organization of the school including how tasks are assigned and performed..

3.Building collaborative process

Constructive leaders giving chance for others in decision making about issues that affect them and which their knowledge is crucial..

4.Managing the environment

Constructive leaders work with management and PTA, business and government liaisons. To effectively improve their school in the environment and to respond to legitimate concerns from parents and others .

Leaders Respond productively to challenges and opportunities created by accountability oriented policy context

1.Creating a sustaining a competitive school.2.Empowering others to make significant decision 3.Providing instructional guidance 3.Strategic planning.

1.Creating and sustaining competitive schoolThis is important when choice options and market conditions eliminate monopolies over enrolments and require schools to compete with students .

2.Empowering others with significant decision

When accountability mechanism require stock holders to have a greater voice in school governance leaders implement strategies that help others participate effectively.

3.Provide instructional guidance When accountability policies stress standards for professional performance for staffs in the school leaders should help create conditions for the improvement of the school.

4.Strategies planning

When schools are required to have school improvement plans for accountability purpose ,school leaders pay special attention to monitoring school performance and developing concrete plans for improvements

Respond productively to challenges and opportunities of educating diverse groups of students 1.Building powerful forms of teaching and learning2.Creating strong communities in school.3.Expanding the proportion of students capital valued the schools. 4.Nurturing the development of families educational culture

1.Building powerful forms of teaching and learning

Leaders are highly deserve context contexts help identify and implement forms of teaching and learning that are appropriate and effective for the population ..

Creating strong community in school.

Students and teachers also benefit when teachers and others from a professional learning g community.

Conclusion Constructive leadership is more effective when it is focused teaching and learning .and not sufficient for school improvement.Constructive educational leadership focusing setting direction for the school and developing people and organization Still many gap in our knowledge about effective educational constructive leadership.

CONSTRUCTIVE LEADERS ARE THE BACKBONE OF THE EFFECTIVE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT.

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