Growing Teacher Leaders in a Culture of Excellence

Budaya bagi membentuk guru sebagai pemimpin harus dilakukan kerana setiap pemimpin bukanlah dilahirkan tetapi juga boleh dibentuk. Itulah pentingnya peranan budaya organisasi yang cemerlang.

This teacher realized that her previous opinion of leadership was based on a faulty philosophy that leaders are born, not made (Lunenburg & Ornstein, 2004). “I have always looked at leadership as something that people had or didn’t have. I hadn’t ever really thought that leadership is something that can grow in a person. This process really made me more aware of how I think of myself and how others view me as a leader.”

Viewing teachers as leaders requires a paradigm shift about the concept of leadership in a school system. As Dufour, Dufour, Eaker, and Many (2006) state, these shifts often make teachers uncomfortable. Such paradigm shifts associated with developing teachers as leaders may include moving from isolation to collaboration, from privatization of practice to open sharing of practice, and from independence to interdependence.

Benar atau tidak, hubungan yang signifikan akan ditentukan hasil dari dapatan kajian ini.

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School Culture - Searching Information for Project Paper

High commitment and high performance seem to be distinguishing features of schools with a healthy organizational culture and high staff well-being (Sergiovanni, 2006).

Tim Tilmone, (2002) states that changing a toxic school culture into a healthy school culture that inspires lifelong learning among students and adults is the greatest challenge of instructional leadership.

A working definition from Roland Barth defines school culture as "how we do things around here,"(Delisio, 2006). Wagner expands on that definition. School culture, he says, is shared experiences both in and out of school, such as traditions and celebrations, a sense of community, of family and, team."

A school leader today is supposed to act as an entrepreneur, a person of vision, able to inspire, empower and motivate his staff (Aelterman et al., 2008). In explaining the leadership role of a principal, (Edward Redalen, 2007) states that what seems to be emerging is the need for leaders, at any level, to combine clear aspirations of what the organization is trying to become, with skills and dispositions to energize a productive staff and constant attention on meeting or exceeding the needs of students and the parents/community.

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