Leadership Training

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An extensive research base supports the view that leadership is the most important element of an effective school (Sergiovanni 1984; Elmore 2000; Stoll 2004). Although, leadership training for teachers has been one of the actual issues of developing countries, it still persists as a problem over the world. The question is that “Teachers must be trained or not? “It is a fact that teachers have a more significant impact on student achievement than any other school factor and among teacher qualities; professional development of teacher is an essential problem for student outcomes. Researches have shown that leadership training has got a great role on teachers’ professional improvement, it can change teachers' practices and decidedly influence…show more content…
Leadership trainings are designed to support teachers to strengthen the leadership skills that schools need for improvement. At the same time, they are made to empower schools and districts to keep track of that capacity, so that these teachers’ leadership abilities are not just individual talents, as well as hierarchical resources that can be assets for reform. Powerful professional development engages teachers in learning opportunities that are supportive, job-embedded, instructionally-focused, collaborative, synergetic and open-ended. Professional development includes complete, managed and systemic learning encounters that depend on distinguished needs of teachers, and result in enhanced instructional adequacy and increased student achievement and performance outcomes. Teachers as an educational leader must have a range of specialised skills (leadership training) for managing an effective and collaborative class, using data that they know, improving their own theoretical and practical education level, developing of students through the teaching-learning process at…show more content…
They learn how they can work together with their partners, share vision, get benefit from each-other and also teacher trainers meet new people from the same branch during training and differentiate their ideas, instructions or lesson plans in partnership, leading team meetings viably and proficiently, and fitting one's initiative style to meet the group teachers' need. “A hallmark of leadership, therefore, is the ability to collaborate with others. Teacher leaders must enlist colleagues to support their vision, build consensus among diverse groups of educators, and convince others of the importance of what they are proposing and the feasibility of their general plan for improvement. They gain a better grasp of how to share the elements of strong instruction more effectively with other teachers.They must be respected for their own instructional skills. They also must understand evidence and information and recognize the need to focus on those aspects of the school's program that will yield important gains in student learning” (). At the same time, teacher-leaders collaborate with different educators to broaden their own learning, advance effective school development efforts through professional
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