School leaders: challenging roles and impact on teacher and school effectiveness

CHALLENGING ROLES AND IMPACT ON TEACHER. AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS. Bill Mulford. Professor and Director. Leadership for Learning Research Group.

What is the most challenging responsibility of a school leader?

Evaluating Student's Outcomes\n\n One of your biggest areas of responsibility – as well as a major challenge – is definitely influencing the performance of the students. As a principal, you would obviously want to promote learning and make sure that your students are performing as well as they possibly can.

How do leaders influence the effectiveness of the school as an educational organization?

By developing people – providing teachers and others in the system with the necessary support and training to succeed. And by making the organization work – ensuring that the entire range of conditions and incentives in districts and schools fully supports rather than inhibits teaching and learning.

What are the 3 major challenges you face as a school leader?

Every principal face some of the biggest frustrations to control student behaviour, recruiting teachers and staff, promote personalized learning, improve teaching effectiveness, student retention, parent support, and more.

What are the challenges of teacher leaders?

The other variables important in the formation of teacher self-esteem differ, although both types of self-esteem are interrelated as the level of one is predictive of the level of the other. These findings accentuate that workload, time allocation, and self-esteem are important challenges in teacher leadership.